The prop I druled over and waited to shoot for better part of the month was the A-Ford. As it -of course- turned out the car was a pain in the ass to work around. With uncontrollable specular highlights and the blue paint job that sucked up all the light! There was no way I could have made my lightsource relativly huge compared to the car nore have more power out of my SB units.
First I sat on Monica on the drivers seat and shot from outside, what a mess! Too much stuff in the frame and not enough lights (?.) Monica was cracious infront of the lens and she made even the bad frames to look good. It was obvious that wasn’t going to get the pics I was after. Asked if she would not mind to model for Janne on the seemless for some time and then come back to me. The arangement gave me time to sort things out wihtout having a model being bored to death by f-stops, flash ratios and diffusion..
She came back and I put her on the back seat of the car. One ezybox is on the drivers seat held by VAL (Janne) as a mainlight and the second ezy is back left in the rear window coverd with a scrim. Flare is caused by the sb80dx and sb600 3-4 meters from the windows zoomed out.
I felt awsome! I had to hold my self back not to scream when I looked at the image from the back of my D200! I made true comeback! Stuggeled, bailed out on time and came back with one of the best images I have ever shot! “Shoot, suffer,die” says da man and I tell ya, I could have died happy after this shot.
Model: Monica Menniti
Make-up: Noora Hautakangas
Styling: Maiju Siekkinen
Really good! You did well!
Thanks!
I really enjoyed the day these pics specialy. I came home and Leea (gf) took the camera and flipped through the images on it. She knew exactly which photos Id jump about later :D