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A HollyWood Light Challenge

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Man she didn't want to do this. I broke a rule here. I used flash. In a dark foyer, no natural light .......Yuk. One light with a snoot, no reflector and no other lights.

Thats some rule breaking. Surprised I got this. This is more Old time HollyWood (I Think) Still gonna work on em.

Thanks for looking, Fred

 
FredJamesPhotography said:
Great shot here, it has a Illustrated look with a creammy smooth look
also while still keeping the Hollywood look . Thanks!
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Thanks for the comment. Two things that bothered me on the original (which made me ask if it was 'out of camera original') was I was wondering if the lens had an effect - seems like the forehead was pulled out a bit giving a concave look and there's not only a difference in luminance from the bridge of the nose down but looks like some lost saturation as well, which resists global adjustments, if you know what I mean. I 'pushed in' the forehead a bit. :-)
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You guys rulez!

Btw, one day I will improve my photography/artistic culture
to better understating the many styles/ages.
 
Thanks Fred :-)

What I usually do is go to the site of the magazine I want to emulate. In this case American Photo:

http://www.popphoto.com/inamericanphotomagazine/3815/current-issue-marapr-2007.html

On their covers they seem to have the text flowing with the models and different sized/styles of fonts (even within the same heading.)

The most time consuming part is tracking down the fonts.

Box Shot makes it so easy to test your cover on a book (apply your image to the front, go to the Render tab, lower the render quality to about 25 and render a quick test.) If everything looks ok then set the render to 100 and choose a resolution and thats it.
FredJamesPhotography said:
By next year we might have enough to do a whole news stand. (LOL)
Sam your work is great but these books are so much fun to look at. I
love the way you think it out and when you do your rendition with one
of the pictures they seem to work perfect in your books. Do you
think about that as your doing the picture or do you just get lucky
cause thye look well planned out.

Thanks alot Sam, Fred
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Hello Kent,

This was not out of camera. I wish I was that good. I play with brightness contrast settings in Nikon NX and do some spot adjustments.

I'm really nat the best at the Tech. part of post work and probably make mistakes that I don't realize. One thing I did on this one that I noticed was around the arms there was a black area that was not noticable unless my LCD screen was tilted right.

Thanks Kent.
Fred
 
My wife decided we should do a self portrait Sunday, so I decided to try something similar to the 50's style of lighting...Hepburn and Tracy is what we were going for. Sorry I didn't see this tread earlier to jump in...here's our try -- made all the more difficult because we had to set the timer and run from the camera and try and get in position!



And here's one of an actress from a few months ago...



BooRadley
 
Thanks, Fred for the kind words ... however ... I honestly thought about taking this image down. Not happy with it at all and I should have taken more time with it or now done it. There is one aspect of the older "hollywood look" that I have noticed ... something that is completely "verboten" these days ... and that is the extreme soften of the skin. That is so easy to do now ... much more difficult in the wet-process days. I may give this another shot and kick up the skin smoothing. Have a great New Year, Fred. See you in 2008! :-)

wiz
 
Thanks for the info. I like trial and error but it always helps to have a reference.

I just did this off the cuff lastnite of wife.
Fred

 
You have been doing some really great stuff here and it's appreciated. Thanks
Fred

Did you see my late add on of my wife the Dragin lady.....get it dragin (on a smoke) LOL

 
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