"Work is Love Made Visible." --Kahlil Gibran
This was much, MUCH safer than it probably looks, thanks to a bit of Photoshop magic. Art is nice, but not killing someone is much better.
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Camera: Nikon D3s
Lens: 11-image “Brenizer method” panorama with the Nikon 85mm f/1.4G (equivalent of 43mm f/0.7 according to Brett’s calculator)
I’m headed off to WPPI in Vegas, the biggest photography conference in the known Universe. I’ll be shooting, meeting friends new and old, and just possibly trying to ride Siegfried and Roy’s tiger around town. If you’re at WPPI, send me an @reply on Twitter — I’ll be playing host a few times throughout the conference, and I’d love to meet blog readers. The business continues as usual in Wendy’s capable hands, but I figured I’d leave something awfully pretty up for the blog when I’m gone, and Natalya more than fits the bill.
A photographer and documentary filmmaker herself, she was an amazing subject to work with: She can go from vulnerability to a Julia Roberts laugh in a heartbeat. And she knows how to dominate a beam of light.
Lots of different light sources in this set, including an iPhone. Photography-geeks can feel free to guess.
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Hair: Chi Shay
Make-up (and light assistant): Andrew Sutphen
I’ve been shooting some more fashion and beauty recently because of a new partnership I’ve made, some new gear I’m testing, and because it allows me to mix things up in my head before I hit the wedding season full steam. It’s extremely easy to take photos of a great model like Christine and make her look good. As usual for this sort of subject, my interest lies in creating photos with an unfinished story. Christine managed to bring out so much power and ambiguity on a dime. Lots more to come.
On that note, happy Valentine’s Day, especially to the 71 couples I’ve photographed who will be celebrating their first in marriage.
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Lens: 45mm f/2.8 PC-E
Camera: Nikon D3s
Lighting: White Lighting 1600 (modeling light only) with a modifier to be named later…