Sue Hepburn ~ new series - DPChallenge Forums

Olympus 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO M.Zuiko

07/25/2007 06:11:21 PM · #1

Last week I had a shoot with Sue.

These are the results.. I'm pretty happy with them!!

All shot with natural light.

Comments are very welcome, and will be returned ofcourse :D

Brad

Olympus OM-D E-M1

07/25/2007 06:36:34 PM · #2

Outstanding Han!

Looks so much like a young Jackie O. and could see this shot 30 years ago on the cover of Newsweek or Time Magazine.

Outstanding. Doesn't get much better than this.

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G

07/26/2007 04:44:03 AM · #3

Thanks Brad, and other people who left a comment.

I'll return the favor when I'm a bit more awake.. (it took me 5 minutes to write this post, haha)

jan_vdw

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM

07/26/2007 05:16:20 AM · #4

Awesome!

This is my favourite:

breadfan35

Nikon D3

07/26/2007 06:19:33 AM · #5

Very good stuff

biteme! I will add comments when I get home form work today. Are these taken with your new 85mm f/1.2L?

07/26/2007 06:22:26 AM · #6

Originally posted by breadfan35:

Very good stuff biteme! I will add comments when I get home form work today. Are these taken with your new 85mm f/1.2L?

Thanks!

Yep.
I still have to get used to the quality AND the DoF. Especially without a tripod or with bad light outside it's hard (shaky shaky hands). The lens is heavy.. Ah well. I'll get used to it ;)

07/28/2007 05:39:13 AM · #7

Thank you all for the nice comments :)

07/28/2007 06:10:26 AM · #8

Oh, by the way, some people asked me about the b/w conversion.

I'll explain a little bit.

In the RAW-converter I edited one photo, and tagged that conversion to "sue". I used it for all photos from Sue, sometimes with a small adjustment.

Change to grayscale, and slide the blacks to a nice level. Yes, The blacks are really black, but that was what I wanted in this series. I wanted it to look like the old-fashioned-Hepburn-style. Not sure if I did that, but I'm satisfied ;) I also added a small vignette in the raw-onvertor.

In photoshop, I tweaked the curves a little bit and added another vignette, to finish.

All these photos were staged, ofcourse, and I know some aren't sharp enough (for me at least) but I really have to get used to the new lens. But I think that will work out allright.

The light was perfect, cloudy. I've had some critiques about the dark eyes, but I didn't have an assistent who could hold a reflector. But actually, I like it myself.

I'm not awake 100% yet, so I hope this all makes sense ;)