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Lloyd is altogether too good looking! He was also the first male model I ever shot. Lighting is with a single softbox setup for short lighting. Comments welcome
ciaran wrote:
Lloyd is altogether too good looking!
My goodness, isn’t he just! Smoldering would be the word I think.
Initial thought was the contrast was a bit low, I think it’s the background that made me think that. The eyes are great, so dark.
Have you ever shot male nudes Ciaran?
Hehe!! Steady on there Sinead!!
Saw this one before Ciaran..must have been on your website. Really nice portrait…it has that thing that Si is always talking about…the almost breaking into a smile look.
what was that about male nudes???
great shot, ciaran. *goes away to read up on short lighting*
Come on ladies behave yourselves.
Great shot, I know nothing about portraite, but from a total numpty this looks good. And thanks for posting how you got the light, it helps.
Fantastic portrait Ciaran lighting pose and conversion are spot on.
Mick
Girls Girl Girls….if you go to Ciaran’s site you’ll find a more underdressed shot of your Beau… :wink:
http://www.thewonderoflight.com/index.htm
Here’s a more direct link. Some great stuff on the site..give it a look.
http://www.thewonderoflight.com/photos/recent/cwhyte_080203_0262_small.jpg
jessthespringer wrote:
Have you ever shot male nudes Ciaran?
Nope, never shot a male nude and no immediate plans to explore that genre either. The fact is, I find the female form just altogether more aesthetically pleasing and beautiful.
Here’s one more of Lloyd
Ah Ciaran,
You’ll have them drooling all over their keyboards now…tut tut!!
:wink:
*swims through the droll to find her keyboard*
Gorgeous.
And the photography and lighting are great too…Yes, even in the clothed one! (lol… esp in that one in fact…)
Absolutely class first pic.
Pink jocks in the second pic add a bit of cheekiness and superb lighting but not sure about where the background ends! It distracts the eyes a tiny bit away from the model but I’d imagine the ladies wouldn’t notice it :wink:
Yes, first class image… probably…
It looks perfectly exposed, composed and converted. Of course no image is absolutely
perfect and it is possible to find faults here too. The back of the shirt collar for instance –
a little burning in might make it less obvious – and the bright speck to the left (as I look
at it) of his right lapel. But these are just minor niggles…Perfect exposure, perfect subject. So why am I not hugely impressed?
For some reason or other I can’t help but think of vegetables. Or at least vegetables in
the context of ‘product photography’. You find the perfect vegetable, perhaps a little
bit of spray mist, light it correctly, and press the shutter release. Altogether too easy in
a sense (even if time consuming) if you know what I mean…I suppose I’m just finding it difficult to find any appeal here. We are bombarded with imagery
of this sort all the time, particularly in the printed media. Flick through any magazine and tell
me how many images want to make you stop and analyse. I’ll stop at a picture of Keira Knightley,
primarily because I’d like to bed her, but rarely to appreciate the quality of the photography. I’m
certain I’d flick past Lloyd without a second thought. He’s probably posed this way a thousand
times, practised his sultry look and variations of it a million times in front of a mirror, and has
a repertoire of similar postures and expressions that will work for the camera. As you say, he
may be altogether too good looking, but I can’t find anything that I want to look at here…What’s missing, that thing which might force me to look for a couple of seconds longer, is the
product being advertised or the manufacturer’s marque, be it Hugo Boss, Paco Rabane, Armani,
or Calvin Klein, something upmarket that need a pretty background (no insult intended, but for
me, that’s what I’m seeing here – always an issue with modelling images)…There is nothing wrong with this type of photography; it’s become necessary in the all-consuming
market that is the world we live in. I’m just a little surprised, given your history here on PI of posting
more thought provoking images over the last couple of years, that you seem to be heading more
and more towards the anonymity of the advertising photographer – pure quality but no substance…If all this seems a little rambling and nonsensical you’ll have to forgive me as I am a little drunk at
the moment. I do hope I haven’t come across as being impolite…Rob.
Rob wrote:
Yes, first class image… probably…
I’m just a little surprised, given your history here on PI of posting
more thought provoking images over the last couple of years, that you seem to be heading more
and more towards the anonymity of the advertising photographer – pure quality but no substance…If all this seems a little rambling and nonsensical you’ll have to forgive me as I am a little drunk at
the moment. I do hope I haven’t come across as being impolite…Rob.
You’re a hard man Rob :)
My “journey” last year was to move away from street photography (http://www.thewonderoflight.com/galleries/main.php?g2_itemId=165) and into a studio, or more specifically to work with models – not so much an advertising photographer though. It’s really a different skill and mindset.
For my street stuff, I could wander Dublin for a day and never get one image. You had to wait to spot a scene, before you could capture it. If/when you did spot a scene, the challenge then was how to capture it, what perspective to use, analyse the light, decide whether to engage the subject or not etc. But at the end of the day, the scene had to present itself first.
Model work is different in that the shots have to be created more so than captured. This process starts at the generation of the idea, through to the selection of the model that fits that idea, selecting the clothing and styling, choosing the exact lighting conditions (as opposed to working with what ever lighting you have at the time) etc. So it was a new challenge for me – I wanted to improve my lighting and the only way I was going to do that was practice.
Lloyd is a result of that process.
I think you have done a great job. Studio is all about controlling the light, that has never been an issue for you that i could ever remember. Headed back Dallas way any time soon? i could set us up a model, MUA and studio time if you ever get back over here.
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