Fashion – Photographer Jay Mawson – Website www.jaymawson.co.uk

LOCATION: My studio in Yorkshire, England

CAMERA AND LENS: Nikon D700 + Nikkor 85mm 1.8

LIGHTING: Natural Light

CREATIVE PROCESS: Shot as part of an editorial set for a makeup artist focusing on Indian influence in fashion

POST PRODUCTION: Lightroom export – B&W treatment only

Portrait – Photographer Crash Taylor – Website www.crashtaylor.com | www.crashtaylorphotographer.com

LOCATION: Grade II listed building in the centre of Nottinghamshire, UK

CAMERA AND LENS: Canon EOS 3 film camera and Canon 50mm 1.4

LIGHTING: Natural light and a Lastolite Gold reflector

CREATIVE PROCESS: This is part of a personal project I am working on which is based on films like The Sixth Sense, The Others, The Ring, Poltergeist etc… The project will consist of approx 20 cinematic stills from ideas I get from watching these films. The models are brilliant and really enjoy acting out the scenes.

POST PRODUCTION: I started with a yellow film effect filter which complimented the ISO 800 film I was using. I added a texture which I overlayed several times over the image and finished with curves and dodge and burn.

Fashion – Photographer RC Riveria – Website www.rcriveria.com

LOCATION: My studio in SF

CAMERA AND LENS: Canon 5d Mark II & Canon 24-70mm L.  Shot at 50mm, f/11 to keep the sharpness. Shutter speed sync to 1/160 to prevent any natural light from coming in to the shot and freeze any movements by the model.

LIGHTING: Profoto D4 Pack, Acute Heads, Profoto Softlight Diffuser.  Grids for the back light to limit the light spill on the background.

CREATIVE PROCESS: This image is part of a personal series project entitled “mask”.  A black and white still life and fashion/portrait shoot with warrior/urban/hip inspired wardrobe.  It is a collaboration between myself and stylists I work with.

POST PRODUCTION: Processed via Adobe Camera Raw in color then converted to black and white in Photoshop.  There are a bunch of ways I do black and white but this was a black and white adjustment layer with the blue’s punched in a bit more to give it more contrast and deep blacks

Portraits – Photographer Crash Taylor Website www.crashtaylor.com

LOCATION: A very old house in England.

CAMERA AND LENS: Canon 1D Mark IV and Canon 85mm 1.2 L II.

LIGHTING: Daylight and Lastolite reflector. There was a huge bay window behind me and to camera left. My assistant was holding a Lastolite sunlite reflector just below the model, out of frame.

CREATIVE PROCESS : I was taking a series of photographs of the model for a personal project I’m working on. As we were leaving the location, I saw her talking to her friend in front of the wall and loved the light hitting her face. I said give me some attitude and the photo was taken. I love the background wallpaper, the colours and the natural light rocks.

POST PRODUCTION: I played around in curves with the colour and added some contrast.

Fashion – Photographer RC Riveria – Website www.rcrivera.com

LOCATION: Old San Francisco Naval Shipyard

CAMERA AND LENS: Canon 5d mark II with canon 50mm 1.4.   ISO 100 -and 1/60 shutter speed with

LIGHTING: Profoto BPro-B2 Battery pack with 1 Head.  Used mostly for fill light since it was bright and sunny that day.  Also used a simple pop-up reflector on occasion (for fill light also).

CREATIVE PROCESS: This shoot was originally shot for a local magazine as a fashion editorial story entitled ” Running on Empty”.  It never went to print due to some creative power struggle.  I didn’t want it to get buried in the archives and since the images were not going to be in the magazine anymore I had complete control over what I wanted to do with them.  So I collaborated with ADAPT Digital ( http://www.adaptdigital.com )  here in San Francisco to give it a few (more) tweaks.  It ended up winning this years Photo District News PIX Imaging Contest (2nd Place for Fashion).

POST PRODUCTION: *see above

Portrait – Photographer Crash Taylor – Website www.crashtaylorphotographer.com

LOCATION: Los Angeles alley

CAMERA AND LENS: Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 85mm 1.2 L II

LIGHTING: Natural light

CREATIVE PROCESS: This image is pure luck. I was taking a portrait of my brother when all of a sudden my son appeared in the frame. He sat down holding his biscuit and started stirring at his uncle. It’s the first photo I have taken of both of them together. It’s now framed in my studio.

POST PRODUCTION: I converted the image to black and white and pumped up the contrast. I then added a solid colour fill layer and changed the blend mode to soft light.

Weddings – Photographer Jaco Fourie – Website www.jdphotography.co.za

LOCATION: Science fiction museum Seattle USA

CAMERA AND LENS: Nikon D3s with 14 – 24 F2.8

LIGHTING: Sun and 2 SB-800 speed lights.

CREATIVE PROCESS: I created this image at my workshop that I hosted in Seattle USA.  I love working at that building and can shoot there for days. This image is one of my all time favourites even thought it may not appeal to everybody. It is always difficult shooting into the sun working with just small light sources.  I used 2 SB-800’s. One is in front of the bride creating a bit of a rim around her face and the other was on a boom lighting up her head and back.  I like all the lines and even though the bride was standing still I posed her in such a way that it looks like she is walking up the stairs.

POST PRODUCTION: I cloned out all the light stands. Added a bit of defuse glow .