I have shot Sheldon Parnick for a few years now. She is a beautiful young woman, and makes worthwhile the effort to do something different each time. I guess you could say she is one of my “muses” — capturing beauty is a joy, and enhancing it, either with techniques before the shutter clicks, or in post-processing later, just increases the delight. In any case, here are a few images from our latest shoot in the studio, in which I used three lights. For some of the shots I used a gobo (a “go-between,” a piece of cardboard with a cutout) with the front light to control where the light fell. This gobo is a challenge to use: you have to hold it between the light from the flash shining on the front of the model and the model herself, without letting the gobo appear in the shot. It is a more versatile way of concentrating light than a “snoot” or a 10-degree flash lens, or a fresnel (“fray-Nell) lens (the kind used with on-camera flashes), but it’s physically challenging to use, and to press the shutter button at the same time. I could have used the 10-second timer on the camera, but that would have slowed things down considerably, and didn’t guarantee that the light would be exactly where I wanted it on the face in any case.
So much for the technical stuff! There are also some image taken with natural light in the hallway outside my home studio room. These are pleasing as well, and the Velvet 56 lens does a great job for some of them. The others were shot with the RF 24-70mm Canon lens.
Enjoy what you see here. If you are thinking about modeling, or someone has suggested that you could be a model, give me a call and we can set something up. My fees are very low, but I think that you would find the results to be impressive.