Portraits – Photographer Richy P. Walton – Website www.photograffiti.tv
LOCATION: The break dancer was shot in my studio and the background was a local car park in my home city. The car park had not long been finished which helped as it was pretty much empty when I went to shoot there.
CAMERA AND LENS: For the break dancer in the studio I used the Canon 50mm 1.8 (cheapestone) I use this lens for most things in the studio, it is fantastic for the small price of £80. The lens that I used to shoot the background was the Canon 20mm 2.8, I just just love the effect that this lens gives, it’s also a reasonably cheap lens that is great for the price. Both of these lens are used for pretty much all of my work. The portrait and car park were both shot with a Canon 5D.
LIGHTING: The Portrait had two six foot soft boxes lighting him from behind, a smaller soft box was used camera right and left and then an Orbis ring flash was used for fill. All soft boxes had Bowens 500s on them and the Orbis had an old Canon EZ speedlite through it. The car park was shoot with the natural light available and was made up of five different exposures which where then run through HDR software.
CREATIVE PROCESS: The break dancer was great, he had so many cool moves that he could pull off first time every time. I had the car park in my head and wanted a pose that was just totally impossible on a normal portrait session. This one for me was the most impressive.
POST PRODUCTION: The car park was HDR, I then took it into Photo Shop where I grunged it up a bit and took it from that horrible HDR look to something more believable. I used curves and blending modes with duplicated layers to achieve the final look. The portrait looked pretty cool off camera, I just had to match the colours with the background really. I again used curves to match the contrast with the background.
Portraits – Photographer Crash Taylor – Website www.crashtaylor.com
LOCATION – A farm in the English countryside
CAMERA AND LENS - Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 24-105mm f4 IS L
LIGHTING – Lowell ID video light
CREATIVE PROCESS - This is a film still from a HDSLR short film using the Canon 5D Mark II. It was my first time using the camera in a video capacity and the results were stunning. The film took us 4 hours and was handheld as we didn’t have any other equipment, not even a tripod. We start production on the next one in April, this time we will be experimenting with camera dollies, jibs etc… If you want to check out the film here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh2CKvKp89U
POST PRODUCTION – This is how it looked straight from camera. I added a curves adjustment layer and the shadow on the wall to give the effect the younger vampire is looking at this figure. It adds a lot more mystery to the image.