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FISHMANPET posted:You may not have any since this was just a meetup group that hired a random model, but any thoughts on photographing latex? In my experience, you should keep a couple of cans of silicon spray on hand to keep the glossy look - it also helps to stop the latex from sticking to everything it touches as well as making it easier to wipe off anything that does stick. Beyond that, it's a highly reflective surface so either accentuate that or mitigate it with your lighting solution.
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Jan 18, 2016 14:07
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Some cheesecake shots for a friend Anastasia 18 by Iain Compton, on Flickr  Anastasia 17 by Iain Compton, on Flickr A lot of the photos I took in that session came out very soft and I didn't notice it in the previews until I started processing them. I must have disengaged the autofocus at some point without noticing.
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MadlabsRobot posted:Looking at the EXIF it looks like you shot them with fully open aperture (2.8) at fairly slow shutter speed (1/15). Did you use a tripod, otherwise the softness it might be a combination of shooting the lens fully open and camera shake? No it was all handheld as I was scrambling around on my knees getting angles while she posed. There wasn't a lot of time for the shoot so I set the lights up and we just ran through some locations in my apartment.
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Feb 17, 2016 13:29
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I have pretty steady hands, I can shoot unsupported up to about 1/2s normally without problems. I was shooting at +2EV which meant that the previews were very bright, which is why I didn't notice the softness from a quick look at the back screen during the shoot. I should probably have knocked it down to 0 or +1 and a faster aperture.
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Feb 17, 2016 14:51
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Haggins posted:Yeah you won't notice anything at ISO 400 and even 800 will be hard to tell. I never shot with a 70D but I bet even 1600 will be barely noticeable. I had a 50D and I was always fine going up to 1600. There is off-camera lighting in those shots. A remote flash through an umbrella from above and the front, and a ring light off a reflector on the other side. I'm not using built-in flash or hot-shoe lighting on any of those shots. But ok, I don't generally consider 1/15 to be super slow. Sounds like I should.
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Feb 17, 2016 21:41
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Paragon8 posted:Generally the rule of thumb I've found is to shoot faster than 1/focal length on full frame to avoid camera shake. Not all pictures with women but I think, pretty young girl in lingerie with a sexy but not an explicitly sexual pose kind of counts as cheesecake.
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Feb 17, 2016 23:22
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I took some more shots of Anastasia. Still wide open and overexposed but a faster shutter this time. Anastasia 37 by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Feb 24, 2016 11:06
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^^ Thanks! here's another, 1/100 this time, same lighting setup. Anastasia 23 by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Feb 24, 2016 14:22
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In the first two (not so much with the whole family portrait) the subjects look super-awkward. The first one is especially bad for that - the guy looks nervous and he's fiddling with his glasses which makes the whole shot look forced and tense.
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Mar 29, 2016 00:10
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Kakhaber Tsiskaridze Kiev 88, Arsat 80mm f2.8. After show meet&greet.  img306.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Apr 11, 2016 14:33
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Unposed shots of people taken with Soviet film cameras. Bored by Iain Compton, on Flickr  Zenit-14.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  Time out by Iain Compton, on Flickr  Friends by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Apr 22, 2016 23:56
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maxmars posted:Yes I agree that she should have the same make up applied to the arms / hands for a more uniform look. I wanted a clown-ish appearance (the clothing, the make up and the rest). As for being too try-hard for a weird concept.. I respect that opinion but that's what I wanted to shoot and it will continue with the next shootings. What's clownish about her clothing? Apart from the bowler hat and a tiny bow-tie, she's dressed fairly casually. The cello and the rape flowers completely overpower her in that scene. In fact the main point of contrast where your eye is naturally drawn is basically her crotch because there's a bunch of clashing colours with the flowers, her trousers and the cello in that space. Her face is well out of the main focal area and your eye is not really led there by anything.
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Apr 27, 2016 01:01
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I like the first one but the framing on the last two seems weird. Cutting off her boots at the ankles looks strange. If that's not a crop, I'd be tempted to crop it at knee level so that you get the feeling of movement but without it looking like you were just standing a bit too close to fit her in the frame.
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May 17, 2016 09:47
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My company wanted me to do some portraits of the staff so I persuaded them to pony up for dev costs for medium format black and white. These are from the test roll. 000012.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  000011.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Jul 30, 2016 18:27
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I did a shoot with a local alt-model in my apartment. Unfortunately the light sucked - my nice strobes are in storage, so I only had ambient light from my chandelier and a speedlight firing through a softbox. I'm not at all happy with the results but I got a few keepers. The nicest ones came from my medium format camera, which surprised me as I only had slow film available and the max sync speed is 1/30 so the flash was more-or-less useless. Medium Format (on Portra 160)  untitled-48.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr On Ilford 400  untitled-26.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  untitled-18.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr Digital  untitled-54.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  untitled-103.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  untitled-39.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Aug 11, 2016 01:58
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VelociBacon posted:Why did you do a shoot with your gear in storage? Not being lovely just curious. The opportunity came up. She is a local hobby model who is happy to do TFP work so it didn't cost anything except an few hours of my evening. I underestimated the amount of ambient light in my apartment too. My last apartment had a ridiculous amount of light available and it was easily possible to do properly lit shoots with just ambient light and some off-axis fills. This one is light enough but it's far less diffuse than in my last place - the main light in my living room is a single 25 bulb chandelier whereas in my old place there were something like 70 recessed bulbs spread across the living room ceiling. I don't know when I'm going to get my stuff back and I wanted to give it a go. I'll probably just buy some cheap lamps and modifiers to tide me over.
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Aug 11, 2016 10:40
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Medium format portraits of my colleagues. Work portraits-11 by Iain Compton, on Flickr  Work portraits-12 by Iain Compton, on Flickr  Work portraits-21 by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Aug 24, 2016 21:05
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I was asked to do a boudoir shoot for a friend of a friend. The problem is that this FOAF is in her fifties and is simultaneously very conscious of her aging and has a very unrealistic self-image. She wanted something to make her feel sexy so I decided that the best way to handle it was to do it as a black and white shoot with a lot of deep shadows to give me cover for airbrushing out loose skin and other unavoidable effects of getting older. Some of the shots are nsfw (none of them show full nudity but there are visible nipples on some). This one was my favourite and the only one I didn't convert to monochrome.  ELA37.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Oct 21, 2016 20:32
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I did a shoot with a local hobby model in my apartment last night. Chloe-40.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  Chloe-123.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr This one I'm torn on. I really like the way that her skin disappears and all you see is some splashes of colour (she is super pale, even compared to me). I didn't touch vibrancy or saturation at all just hosed about with curves a bit to boost contrast. I feel it's missing something though and I'm stuck trying to figure out if it actually does look like a cool effect or just like I pushed all the sliders to the right and said gently caress it.  Chloe-38.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Dec 7, 2016 18:28
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I shot it 1.5 EV over exposed to try for a high key effect. The model is super pale anyway so her skin just vanishes under studio light against any light background and I wanted to try to capitalise on that.
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Dec 7, 2016 22:57
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Got asked to do a short notice shoot with a local hobby model friend and her friend from out of town. Medium Format  Chloe&Assayka005.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr Digital  IMG_4779.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  IMG_4672.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  IMG_4788.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Feb 5, 2017 18:42
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Harsh but fair. I'm really struggling with portraits and I've never shot two models at once before. I was asked to do it at short notice (like, 3 hours) so I didn't have many ideas of my own to bring to the shoot, I was mostly trying to make the girls' ideas work. The outside shots were taken in natural light with a single speedlight in a orb umbrella box. Inside I had limited space but three continuous lights in softboxes as well as two off-axis speedlights. I want to do more portrait and full body work but I'm definitely running into a block. Partly it's a problem of limited gear and space but I know that I won't magically get better photos just by buying a poo poo-ton of new gear either. Where do I go from here?
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Feb 7, 2017 13:43
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8th-snype posted:I'd suggest reading a book on lighting or portrait posing, probably both actually. What the gently caress were you doing with 3 softboxed hotlights and 2 off camera flashes in a "limited space" ? I'm not trying to be a dick I'm honestly curious what your intentions were. It's pretty dark in my living room for photography so I needed two hotlights to get decent exposure levels and then I used one or both speedlights as fills to soften the hard shadows. On the couch I needed the third softbox to keep the light consistent along the whole length.
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Feb 7, 2017 13:53
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alkanphel posted:
It looks like he's raising his crest in a mating display.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:01
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I'm trying to guess how these were done. My theory at the moment is that there are multiple low-intensity strobe flashes during a long exposure. Is that right?
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May 23, 2017 10:01
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loving hipsters and their fake dog hair filters. Just be authentic and rub your negatives over your dog. You don't get the same ~verisimiltude~ from digital overlays.
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Jun 3, 2017 13:45
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Moskva 6x9 shots from a local re-enactment event. Moskva_Airshow003.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  Moskva_Airshow004.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Jul 8, 2017 12:51
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Had another go at low key portraits. Chloë 30 by Iain Compton, on Flickr  Chloë 18 by Iain Compton, on Flickr  Chloë 5 by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Jul 23, 2017 00:33
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I mostly wanted to try a darker set. After the first edit, I realised that the strong low key effect wasn't going to work as well as it sounded in my head. In the interest of not just having disembodied bits of skin floating on a black background I ended up bumping the exposure and lowering contrast a fair bit during post.
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Jul 23, 2017 02:45
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I did a shoot for a local 'hostess club' and they decided that they didn't want the images I shot after all - despite the fact that the manageress was there with me and I showed her every picture as I took it. They are all safe for work.  IMG_8911.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  IMG_8893.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Sep 14, 2017 00:27
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Fair enough. My portrait game is pretty weak but I'm trying different things out and attempting to figure stuff out as I go. What specifically would you say was bad about those two portraits? How could they have been better?
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Sep 14, 2017 03:32
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The brief was basically, dark and moody, sexy without being sexual, classy and safe for Facebook. I know what sexy pictures look like but the brief wasn't cheesecake. It was a weird shoot because my Slovak isn't very good and none of the girls spoke English so we ended up having to speak Spanish via the manageress who spoke it for some reason. As for direction, the manageress wanted some specific poses and clothing changes and I was mostly trying to refine those and tidying things up - keeping limbs in frame and so on. The girl in the first photo is quite a big girl and she was very conscious about the way the usual poses showed her size, the overhead photo I posted was my suggestion to try and de-emphasise her belly and hips. The second one, I was trying to show off her legs and draw attention away from her face while still keeping it in the frame. I'm posting here because I want people to tell me how to improve. If I just want uncritical validation, I'll go talk to my dog. I don't get pissy when people tell me I suck as long as there's something I can take away from it to suck less in future.
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Sep 15, 2017 00:58
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Thanks for the more detailed response, I appreciate it. I liked the aesthetic of the high contrast, two light setup so I've been playing with that a lot recently. I hope to get some outdoor shoots in soon to try and mix things up a bit.
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Sep 15, 2017 13:09
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Outdoor portraits. untitled-15-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  untitled-32-Edit-Edit-2.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  untitled-22-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Oct 8, 2017 04:10
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Outdoor shots can be great if you have room and a longish lens.  IMG_4590.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  Kosice_March007.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  IMG_5690.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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Nov 14, 2017 14:05
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Pet photos work a lot better when you are down at their level. On the second one, you've missed focus. Normally you'd focus on the eyes (just like for a human portrait), in this case, it looks like your lens was hunting between the nose and the eyes and just said 'gently caress it, random spot of empty space it is'. Even at 200mm, you should have enough DoF to get all of the face in focus at ƒ/5.6. On both of the dog photos, the crop is awkward, you've got a lot of dead space, but you've cut the legs off.
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Dec 25, 2017 10:20
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You have a longish lens. Lay down, throw a ball and catch her as she is playing with it. Animals are basically impossible to pose because they want to see what you are doing, or they want to move just as you're about to nail focus. Your best hope is to keep some distance so that they aren't interacting directly with you and try and catch some good poses as they move.
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It's been a while since I last got slammed for my terrible lighting choices, so here's the next set of experiments. This time, high-key lighting. IMG_9885-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  IMG_9900-Edit-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr  IMG_9946-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr And a MF shot, Arax-88 on Fomapan 100.  Chloe High-Key003-Edit.jpg by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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