Diptych from Exhibition

These photographs has a good story behind them. 

It all started with a student projects. In the project given to me, I had to find some one (client potential person) and work/shoot for them, and the goal was to shoot for some one who will be like my boss. The outcome (The photographs) of this project has to be viewed by public. So basically the photographs cannot be for ones private use such as portfolio etc . . . 

What I had in my mind was a look for any designer because I was the least complicated idea for a shoot. 

"simple lighting, 1 model, many outfits, A5 size LookBook, no need of medium format, and huge prints"

What I didn't add to my plan was the element of surprise! My designer was pleased with the results as we were shooting and asked me to add them to her exhibition. 

That changed the entire shoot. It wasn't only LookBook poses any more, more art directing was required also they had to be good enough to stand with other Photographers images and those people actually shoot for the exhibition. 

Everything turned out the way it was planned at the end. 

Bored in Photography Studio.

Let me tell you guys the story behind this photo. A photographer friend of mine booked a studio for her shoot but somehow the shoot got cancelled in last day. So she had the studio to her self for 6 hours. Because of the school rules she has to be there if she doesn't want to get fined. So she called Anup (my friend) and I to chill and do different light setups in studio and play around. 

The studio has 5 Strobes, and 2 redheads (redheads are 800w tungsten continues lights) 

I piked the redheads and positioned like in the way shown in my sketch below. (damn bad handwriting) 

Since they are fixed powered, 800W all the time I used the barn doors and distance to position them. 

Main light was away from the subject and had narrow barn doors, and I added another one almost from the same angle but closer to subject with the barn doors wide open to get highlights which will add more dimension to photograph. 

It took me less than 3 min to set up the lights and get this result :D 

Fashion Photography - AUTOMATIC - LookBook

Here is a sneak-peek of my shoot with Sarmite  Ostanevica.


Some of the Photographs will be shown in the exhibition.

Weather Sealed D700

As you might know yesterday 04.02.2012 Saturday was a snowy day in London, it was a big deal for many people since they haven't seen much snow in their life however, I found that was a great opportunity to test my D700 on weather conditions like that.
I used my D700 on a mountain which was very cold, in a really hot and humid Island at the Aegean Sea, under rain in London, but never at under the snow.
So I got the D700 and 50mm 1.4 G lens and head out side. The result is Camera is Put Together well, the camera nor the lens didn't have any problem at all, worked perfectly.

Here is a snap of how D700 looks like when I was back home.

Too bad all the snow on the Camera melt as I stepped in the house. 

After a Fashion Shoot

So 2 days a go, I shoot a look book for a designer friend of mine (Sarmite Ostanevica). And that shoot was a great opportunity for me to take my Mamiya to a teset and see what is my Baby can do. (I already know what it can do, I used it before but never used my own before) it feels great to use your own camera, way better than renting it.

In the shoot, I used D700, F100, and Mamiya RZ67. The reason I used all 3 cameras are simple. 

1. D700 to get instant results in Capture One in Imac and Digital files are fast, from camera to Photoshop 
2. F100 to use transparency film and get slides if necessarily. 
3. I just love the 6x7 images that comes from Mamiya.  

13 exposed rolls from Mamiya (130 photos)

4 exposed rolls of Slide film 

and 18 GB of Digital Data. 

Photoshop will take forever O_O