Did a day of shooting yesterday with a bunch of ladies who know +Shinyong Lee and attend her PrixPrix events.
There were a mixture of ladies: some needed portraits for work, some just wanted a decent portrait because they'd never had a decent one taken before. A couple of ladies, including Mari, were new models for Shinyong's fashion business.
Mari and I hadn't shot before and she was a great pleasure to work with.
This lingerie is from the Maison Close range that Shinyong sells.
Techs and specs?
Model: Mari Nishimura
Hair and makeup: Kanako Furuta
Nikon D700
Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8 ED IF
Alien Bee Ringflash at 1/8th power, bounced off a nearby white wall at camera right.
One Yongnuo 560ii speedlight bounced into a 72" Westcott umbrella at camera left.
Shot in high contrast black and white.
Border and a tiny bit of extra contrast added in Silver Efex Pro2.
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Excellent work +Alfie Goodrich! Greetings from Germany!
Thanks. Greetings back to you from Tokyo, +Oliver Herrmann 🙂
Great photo and work!
Selected as ►TOP Photo on Google+◄ for the daily photo theme:
#10000photographersBWmonochrome by +Robert SKREINER
& +dietmar rogacki +10000 Photographers BW Monochrome
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greetings from berlin, have a nice sunday. 🙂
Thanks +dietmar rogacki 🙂 Glad you like it.
A superb image +Alfie Goodrich ! Great monochrome shot!
Thanks +Dominique Dubied
+Alfie Goodrich really great B/W photograph
Thanks, +Lena Siany
Wow! This is great!
Thanks +Lisa Borel. Gonna be shooting again with Mari very soon. Really pleased how this came out.
いいですわ。
Like it.
Beautiful portrait..!!
typical Japanese face.
But a pretty, typical Japanese face… one must admit, +YiXuan Zhang 🙂
Beautiful picture!! Great work!!
Great visual
Typical beautiful Japanese face.
Other than that, there is just something I like about these B&W's. I just can't get it to be the same.
Most of this +Stephen Nesbitt is done in-camera: higher contrast to blacken the blacks, red filter [in the Nikon Picture Control settings] to lighten the skin. Sharpness also boosted in the picture control. Just added the border in Photoshop and slightly tweaked the contrast a bit more. Main thing is the red filter to make the skin lighter and the contrast boost to crush the blacks.
Thanks Alfie, appreciate the tip. I will have a play.
P.S. +Stephen Nesbitt , she was wearing blue-ish lingerie. So, as blue is the opposite of red, the clothes get blacker with the red filter too.
Wonderful work.
Stunning Portrait! greatings from Poland.