Notes
I took this on Saturday afternoon while shooting headshots with an actor called Will de Meo. We met when I did the portraits for a film currently in pre-production called Grasshopping last year. We'd been trying to sort out a day to do his headshots for a couple of months and finally our diaries coincided yesterday. He wanted some outdoors shots so I took him to a secluded public garden in the Bishops Park area of Putney. It was bloody cold, so I'll have to do a little Photoshop on his red nose, but we got some nice shots. I was lighting with a couple of flashes, although in the end we settled for one flash with a Lumiquest Softbox III as the key light, and backlit by the bright winter sun.
He also wanted a couple of less headshot-ish looks for his website so we grabbed a few others and this is one of my favourites. It was originally a much warmer shot, brought over to CS4 from Capture NX2, but I decided I preferred the colder, slightly green-tinged look that this version has.
Camera & Exposure Information
| NIKON D700 | |
| Focal Length: | 130 mm |
| Aperture: | f/2.8 |
| Exposure: | 1/2500 sec |
| ISO Speed: | 400 |
Comments
This is an amazing picture, the brick wall is so beautiful and worn, and the silhouette of Will is mysterious, beautiful and scary at the same time. It reminds me of an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
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Alex Stoltze on 2nd February 2010 @ 5:23am
Thanks for the comment! They did give him permission!
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ps it won't let me leave my website in the website box
Alex Stoltze on 2nd February 2010 @ 9:30pm
This is the type of picture that I love to take also. Sometimes, instead of a tree, I'd rather take a close-up shot of its bark. In front of a building, I'd take a picture of the fire hydrant attached to the wall outside instead of the building.
Jess Guim on 4th February 2010 @ 7:42pm
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