Originally posted by elsmacko:
I watched that at some point - yeah, he's really incredible. I tried replicating it (something close to it) for the first shoot I did and it turned out really well, including getting good pictures of a girl who says she's Never liked a single picture of herself. Problem is that the sunlight that day just happened to be perfect, and I don't know that I could do it again. |
I seem to remember the whole point with his style was that it worked equally well on cloudy or sunny days - his house faces the northern (i.e., non-sunny) sky, so he's just getting a huge soft box (sky) behind the camera and a big reflector under the subject, to make effectively a huge beauty dish sort of lighting. Add in the fact that he was shooting in a garage (which removed the overhead sky lighting and the style is relatively easy to reproduce.
The forward lean tends to help people's features, thin them out, make them look more engaged and also gives a much faster DoF fall-off to the shot that works well for that style. I'm sure there's more to it, but I've seen some people copy it pretty well spot on, without too much effort.
Message edited by author 2007-01-10 12:12:29. |
