The thoughtful ballerina

A large softbox was positioned to camera left shooting parallel to the mirrored wall.

 

Used a split toning preset in LR and then tweaked the sharpness, exposure and added a vignette.

 



Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/5.6 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

Monochrome Hannah

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/11 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

Hannah at the Barre

One large @Lencarta Octobox camera left.

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/8 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

Hannah ballet pose

This was tricky to light! I used two strip boxes either side of Hannah for rim-lighting and a large Octobox high camera left for fill. This made her hair disappear into the background so I added a gridded reflector shooting from behind over the top of the background.

 

I ended up happy with the light and shadows and Hannah's pose is excellent!

 

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/11 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

Hannah Ballet Silhuoette

@Lencarta

Had a great shoot with the ballerina Hannah this evening. Will be sharing a number of shots over the coming days - thought I'd start with this silhuoette.

I lit this very simply - two flashguns with reflectors on the rear wall. I then darkened Hannah to black and used the magic extractor in PSE to cutout her silhuoette.

To give the shot some depth and context I blended some of the floor back in.

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/13 @ 50 mm, 1/125, ISO 100

One more Michelle!

I was attempting a softer fancy look here. I blended a fractal converted layer with the reversed colour IR layer and then used a cross-processing filter in LR.

 

Canon EOS 450D, f/4 @ 10 mm, 1/200, ISO 400, Flash

 

Michelle crouching

Flash bare and high above Michelle, f/2.0 for slender DOF.

 

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/2 @ 135 mm, 1/250, ISO 200, Flash

 

Mono Michelle and Geoff

Canon EOS 450D, f/3.2 @ 24 mm, 1/160, ISO 400,

Michelle meets Geoff in Infrared

This shot was on the 450D IR conversion using the Canon 24mm f/1.4. I adjusted the colours taking most of the red out and then tone-mapped the single image in Photomatix.

Despite not showing it in the EXIF I had the 580EXII firing into a silver brolley off camera to the right.

Canon EOS 450D, f/3.2 @ 24 mm, 1/200, ISO 400

 

That'll be my crumb...

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/1.2 @ 85 mm, 1/1000, ISO 100, No Flash

From under the arch

Canon EOS 450D, f/8 @ 10 mm, ISO 200

Infrared Channel Mixing

I learnt a couple of things tonight!

Firstly that you can add a free widget to Photoshop Elements to allow channel mixing.

Secondly, using channel mixing to swap blues and reds gives an interesting look in IR images.

Canon EOS 450D, f/4 @ 10 mm, 1/125, ISO 100, No Flash

Geoff goes for a walk with an infrared fish!

I decided a surreal shot like this needed a surreal name!

This shot was taken on the 8-15mm fisheye zoom which was attached to Bob's IR modified 450D. I took three AEB (Auto exposure bracketed) shots and combined them in Photomatix. I bled the colour out of Geoff and added some clarity to him for extra 'pop'.

Finally I used a hue adjustment in Lightroom to give a little more blue to the image.

Canon EOS 450D, f/8 @ 10 mm, ISO 100

Smoking outside the hotel

Canon EOS M, f/2 @ 22 mm, 1/250, ISO 1600, No Flash

Emirates Air Line

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, f/2.5 @ 24 mm, ISO 100