Bert Stephani: Hard Light and Beer Goggles
Bert Stephani is back, with another episode of shooting a beautiful model in Belgium. In this installment he shows us how to use beer to previsualize a background.
(See Bert's blog for jpegs from the shoot.)
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by David, at 12:48 AM.
9 Comments:
Hard light just doesn't have the right aesthetic, when shotting women.
Another pretty silly comment from "anonymous". Hard light *sometimes* isn't the right aesthetic for shooting any subject, but it is going way overboard to state as fact your personal preference for not using it while shooting women.
Oh God, do we HAVE to append everything with "in my opinion" in order to avoid that kind of backlash? You both have a point. Anonymous has an opinion, and Marshall doesn't like Anonymous's tone... ;)
Personally I like quite a lot of those images, although I can understand Anonymous's feelings. However, there are simply NO rules when it comes to photography. If someone thinks it looks good, it works. End of.
So very funny "after a few beers, I can visualize the background..." Great way to get better bokeh I suppose!
Very interesting indeed: what kind of beer does this guy use? and is there any way of modding it for different effects?
Berts stuff is really cool I think Ill have a few beers and look at women and potential backgrounds tonight :)
Owen is right, there are no rules only guidelines and opinions, I heard one bloke on a forum say there ar 60 rules you must follow in portraiture....HA! if we followed them all we'd all have the same pictures.
Do you all suppose there is much post processing in those images, to darken the background against the model, or is that all on account of the flash to ambient exposure. I really love the effect either way.
Does anyone suppose the highlights and background difference (i.e. how dark the non-flash area is) was a post processing exaggeration of what came off the camera. The reason I ask is that I attempt to do as much as I can without PS, and would love to get that effect off the camera (with flashes of course). I love the pictures though.
I do think this is a flash/ambiant balance.
Maybe just a little tone/curve adjustment after?
Impressive is not it? As there seems to be so much ambiant diffuse light...
But you can see on the video that the flash lights it up very hard.
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