One of the ways that helped me learn to create the kind of pictures I wanted to create from a technical standpoint was by trying to reverse engineer the work of others… work that was my friends, that was the photography masters, or, even just cool images I’d seen in magazines. I’d sit there for hours considering what might be at work. It’s a good exercise in trying to understand both the technical stuff AND it can inform the creative for sure.
As such, if anyone is willing to take some stabs, I’d love to know what you think is at work – front to back – in creating this image. Consider lighting, mood, exposures, set build or location, what direction I could be giving the model or anything else you think is relevant. I’ll tell you as much as I can recall about what is actually at work in a follow-up post and maybe kick out a high five or something else to someone who gets closest.
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Easy…
a coupple of beer and…
two light
high angle camera
woman on the floor
more beer
paint the floor in post
and enjoy with 200 guys whom are without nothing to do
cheers!
Martin, you pay attention to what your camera warns you not to do? Where does that leave you creativity?
After all that's been said, I'm going to forget the technical aspects. I like the fact that she's looking out of the frame, and I bet most of the people who work in magazines or advertising would like it to. They need some space to place text, remember?
The mood? Well, I know very few people who go for a run on a mountain that high, where altitude makes for the appearance of vapor, so a mood of bravery and challenging one self is my guess.
I don't know if Chase gave any directions at all, but i imagine something like "imagine it's the first time you get to see the sunlight, feel it's warmth"
And I get the feeling of a South American location, something that always makes my day.
Good one, Chase.
Shift Tilt and Med box or beauty dish.
im gonna guess at a holga lens on a digital camera? or something similar, failing that a tilt/shift lens. flash fired from camera left, with sunlight fill?
I don't really want to get technical about the setup of the shot, but I am more breaking down what I think the picture means to me and what I think you were trying to portray in the picture. The feel that I get from the picture is almost something Zen-like. The subject is taking in a deep breath from atop the mountain, and also taking in the sunshine. Also the angles shown in the picture are very triangular and almost criss-crossing, which definitely is more interesting to look at. The blown out sky seems to tie in the fog/clouds in the center of the picture nicely.
I used to rock climb and when I would summit a climb, this is about what the same feeling that I would get. I would take in the glory of the climb and the sunshine/air and bask in it, very nice and warm feeling.