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Old 12-01-2007   #1 (permalink)
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For the why of this tutorial see my other "Evolution" tutorial.

Just as in the other tutorial we used a tear sheet from this month's Glamour magazine for our inspiration, but I decided to do this in high key rather than low key. First the tear sheet. Several things I don't care for in this iamge is the straight arm and leg. Maybe this is OK for a fashion image but I don't like it for a portrait, and neither did Bree!

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Next we shot a new zebra card because this is an entirely different set of lights than what we used on the other evolution tutorial's images.

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Then we posed and lit Bree as I felt the image should be. I forgot to reset the aperture however and the first image was overexposed.

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It is a good idea to look at the back of the camera after every capture. Since I did, I discovered the mistake and stopped the aperture down to the correct (main light reading) aperture.

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I then looked at her right hand and found I didn't like they way it was posed, so we changed it.

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I wasn't sure I liked the way I had either hand posed so I changed both of them this time.

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This shot shows my high key room and how the shot was set up and the meter readings of the various lights and background. I don't use a hairlight in my high key room. There is enough spill from the background lights bouncing off the ceiling to illuminate her hair. See my tutorial High Key Imaging for how i have my lights set up.

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Nice evolution set Benji and a really good demonstration of high key.

I was watching this as you were uploading and I think this will be a really useful tutorial, especially for this time of year when it seems that high-key christmas photos are very popular.

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Benji: Just two lights on this high key shot? Interesting. I like the final image. Thanks for sharing.
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Kelly,

No. He has three back ground only light firing in a recessed opening in the ceiling plus the other two lights.
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Benji - What's the white thing made of that she is leaning on?
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Bobby,

This is a prop that I had a local carpenter make it up for me a number of years ago, and one of the few from back then that I still use!

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