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High key Emily

This is another edit for the photoshoot on Sunday with Emily. I’ve actually recropped this image from it’s 8×10 format, where Emily appears in the middle of the frame, so that she now appears off centre. I feel this gives the whole image more impact, added with the fact that Emily is positioned so that her body is facing out of the frame. Now some might complain that you should have positioned the subject in that position to start off with, but a trick I picked up from another website (who’s name I can’t remember at the moment) that suggested instead of worrying about composition you could opt for an alternative approach. This alternative approach is not to waste pixels on empty space such as the area to the left of Emily and instead fill the frame with the subject and then reposition afterwards in photoshop. Again the argument could be made about manipulation isn’t photography, but if you think about it you could do exactly the same in a dark room. Obviously this will only work under certain conditions, such as plain background like the one shown above.

PS. This thumbnail and the reduce image doesn’t do the image justice, at least thats my view.

On Sunday I had shoot lined up with Emily. Nothing seemed to go to plan on Sunday. I first arrived in plenty of time to setup as I hate running around in front of people trying to sort things out, but alas things took a lot longer than normal (guess I’m a little out of practice). Then as I was setting up and testing the lights one of the studio heads decided to do the unspeakable. First there was the fizzing sound followed by a series of pops and then suddenly the light went out and the unit emitted wisps of smoke from a series of vents. It was one of those moments when you’re ready to throw you hands into the air and cry. A short phone call to Nic who was also coming along and it was decided that we would still go ahead and see what could be done. I’m so glad that he suggested that, as I was ready to cancel but am so glad that I didn’t. Emily was great to work with, even with the slightly poor condition of my equipment (still cross at the studio head for doing that) she maintained a professional manner, following direction and moving into almost perfect poses on her own. I expect she will go far if she keeps that manner about her when working.

So despite one studio head doing the dirty on me, and some of the remote triggers I borrowed especially for the shoot not working correctly I managed to bag a number of images. Hopefully in the next couple of days before I head off to France I’ll be able to post the rest.