Making of the Hotel Room Shoot with Maya
Thanks to Maya I was able to conclude my work in Thailand with a set of outstanding glamor photos. Here's the making-of:
The setting was a small hotel room in the Novotel, Siam Square, Bangkok, something like this:
Since the room was rather small we only worked with the window and the beds. The sun was shining brightly, so the window together with the white curtains served as a huge soft box. This available light looked good enough, so by using fast lenses I was able to shoot completely without a flash or tripod.
For the first set, we were going for a backlight effect with Maya standing right in front of the window. There were about 40cm between the floor and the window, so Maya had to stand on an ottoman, while I was standing on a table at the other side of the room to get the perspective right (imagine this and Maya's sister sitting on the bed watching TV and you get a picture of our set ;).
In order to get the model bright enough, I chose the Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro lens and used the manual exposure setting (the auto modes would have underexposed the model due to the bright background) at ISO400, 1/100s-1/160s and f/2.8, which is just enough to leave some parts of the curtain visible in the background and to make Maya's body shape glow, giving it a more glamorous appearance. By holding the curtain in different ways Maya was able to vary the background and feel of the images:
Scarves added some more color:
For the second set on the bed I used the Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens at ISO400, 1/125s and f/2.2-2.8, which kept the face sharp while blurring the rest of the body, thus making the model appear extra soft:
Although the raw images looked quite good already, I nevertheless retouched them with Photoshop. The most common procedures were brightening the body, decreasing the vibrance, and desaturate red tones in order to get softer and more natural skin tones. Here's one example:
You can view these and more photos in our portfolio section or on Facebook.
The setting was a small hotel room in the Novotel, Siam Square, Bangkok, something like this:
Since the room was rather small we only worked with the window and the beds. The sun was shining brightly, so the window together with the white curtains served as a huge soft box. This available light looked good enough, so by using fast lenses I was able to shoot completely without a flash or tripod.
For the first set, we were going for a backlight effect with Maya standing right in front of the window. There were about 40cm between the floor and the window, so Maya had to stand on an ottoman, while I was standing on a table at the other side of the room to get the perspective right (imagine this and Maya's sister sitting on the bed watching TV and you get a picture of our set ;).
In order to get the model bright enough, I chose the Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro lens and used the manual exposure setting (the auto modes would have underexposed the model due to the bright background) at ISO400, 1/100s-1/160s and f/2.8, which is just enough to leave some parts of the curtain visible in the background and to make Maya's body shape glow, giving it a more glamorous appearance. By holding the curtain in different ways Maya was able to vary the background and feel of the images:
Scarves added some more color:
For the second set on the bed I used the Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens at ISO400, 1/125s and f/2.2-2.8, which kept the face sharp while blurring the rest of the body, thus making the model appear extra soft:
Although the raw images looked quite good already, I nevertheless retouched them with Photoshop. The most common procedures were brightening the body, decreasing the vibrance, and desaturate red tones in order to get softer and more natural skin tones. Here's one example:
You can view these and more photos in our portfolio section or on Facebook.
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