Testing something different

Wanted to try something different.
Lighting was 4 studio strobes, modeling lights only. Oh and xmas lights on bg
ISO 400, 1/50s, F2.8, 200mm

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Very niiice! But the eyes seem a little over done. Beautiful girl too!

There's a little weirdness going on in the neck area right under her chin. But it might just be shadows.

Anywhoodles, I love it. I think it's gorgeous.

AmandaMarie wrote in post #9158694
There's a little weirdness going on in the neck area right under her chin. But it might just be shadows.

I agree, the shadows make it look like she has a scar or something there maybe. Try some PP on it possibly.

paytonphoto wrote in post #9158587
Very niiice! But the eyes seem a little over done. Beautiful girl too!

I disagree, the eyes match IMO. If they were brighter, I would agree, but here they seem to match the complexion and mood very well.

Now for my own comment, I almost want to say lighten the subject up a little more, seems almost underexposed. Also, did you do any skin PP? There are some spots where the make-up seems a little heavy and could be blended or softened slightly--not much though (but that's just because I'm not too much of a "soft skin" fan) I would have to see how it looks afterwards, but other than that, it's a great image!

Nicely done great shot for me .....

paytonphoto wrote in post #9158587
Very niiice! But the eyes seem a little over done. Beautiful girl too!

I dont think they are overdone, they are done just unevenly.
It was just a test shot so I already spent too much time for cleaning her skin.

AmandaMarie wrote in post #9158694
There's a little weirdness going on in the neck area right under her chin. But it might just be shadows.

Anywhoodles, I love it. I think it's gorgeous.

Thanks.
It looks like shadow from main light. Some day I need to do a proper shoot with a model who dont need that much PP. Lighting ratio is actually wrong here and it makes her skin look bit weird

aebrown wrote in post #9158747
Now for my own comment, I almost want to say lighten the subject up a little more, seems almost underexposed. Also, did you do any skin PP? There are some spots where the make-up seems a little heavy and could be blended or softened slightly--not much though (but that's just because I'm not too much of a "soft skin" fan) I would have to see how it looks afterwards, but other than that, it's a great image!

I knew somebody is going to say its too dark. At the moment I think its little bit too bright as I wanted ambient candle light kind of feel. Yeah her skin needed a lot of PP (too much for a test shot) and I can still see after downsizing some uneven areas. I like the concept and really want to shoot it again. This is good example how tethered shooting helps you see how light falls on model. I just checked LCD on back of camera quickly and it looked ok but when I saw it on my monitor I knew it was all wrong

edgar-Junior wrote in post #9158792
Nicely done great shot for me .....

Thanks. Hopefully someone is going to try similar kind of lighting

a very good effort ,to many make no effort to do some thing different with lighting allways the same set-up from the pro,s ,i like the feel of the shot moody

Semmonka wrote in post #9159038
I just checked LCD on back of camera quickly and it looked ok but when I saw it on my monitor I knew it was all wrong

Chimper! Lol! It's not THAT bad or anything, very well done IMO--I'm just being nitpicky!

very nice try, vesa. i like background effect. which lens used?

kingsown wrote in post #9160018
a very good effort ,to many make no effort to do some thing different with lighting allways the same set-up from the pro,s ,i like the feel of the shot moody

Thanks. Its not really new idea. I saw this kind of photo some time ago and wanted to try it myself

aebrown wrote in post #9160104
Chimper! Lol! It's not THAT bad or anything, very well done IMO--I'm just being nitpicky!

Lol, not that bad but still lightyear away from a great shot
Nothing wrong with nits. I always want to hear them

roman_t wrote in post #9161808
very nice try, vesa. i like background effect. which lens used?

Thanks Roman. 70-200 2.8 IS at 200mm

Vesa, good shot but it seems that it's not what you wanted. It does look dark, though I see that you tried to get the candle light look, the picture's lighting does not tell the story.

Here's some ideas to try:

try to only light a part of her face. Short light her (she does have a wide face)
put a CTO filter and WB to Tungeten
Get a candle and light it up
Keep the xmas lights in the BG. They do add to the atmo of the shot.
keep the awesome hair light
watch the shadows. they do look strange. I'd PP them out.

I don't really understand why you decided to use ony modeling lights...
400 ISO is a bit high for close up portraits.

anyway. you get the idea. I'll try to practice with the" candle light" myself. Thanks for posting, man!

Misha, thanks for the info.
Try this and you will understand why I used modeling lights and ISO 400
F2.8 and ISO 400 was needed to get that ambient xmas light visible. There was no way to use so low setting on my strobes that could mach F2.8 so I needed to use modeling lights instead.
I think Im going to reshoot this in next week and put more effort to it so I dont have spend hours photoshopping badly lit image

Nice shot xmas lights add a good element

Nice shot! I think the eyes look great but neck looks alittle dark

Great shot!