F Stop: Navy SEALs
Working on tomorrow's L102 post (time for another assignment) but noticed Zack just dropped a new F Stop issue in. This time it is Morgan Silk, shooting SEALs and talking about lighting / post production.Little hint to Morgan: When you shoot them, don't tell them your main light is called a "Beauty Dish."
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Posted at 1:31 PM.
18 Comments:
I love his PP, looks like Lucis, but I doubt it is. Thanks for sharing it!
Debbi
well,... really nice picture.
But there are no SEALS with airsoft
toyguns out there... :D
Not sure about anybody else, but I'm only getting a 500 error while trying to follow the link.
That photo looks pretty cool though
second that phil. cool photo though.
Gets my Seal of approval for lighting and post production, however the passport photo shot does not work for me, If he had lifted the weapon to the ready position it would have given a better foreground and composition.
Remember Foreground, midground and background
Rich
I had that 500 error as well, but a refresh took care of it after waiting a moment.
Maybe it is because one of the largest data centers suffered an explosion two days ago...
I'm so sick of that high contrast, Dave Hill-esque method of post I could throw up.
Use Coral Cache:
www.thefstopmag.com.nyud.net/?p=220
This reminds me of Tim Tadder's style.
Unrelated, but this seemed like an article you might be interested in, Mister Hobby:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=5-ways-to-spot-a-fake&print=true
I'm not digging this post too much. Sure he used lighting on the subject, which he lit well. But he photoshopped in a background photo, this is just me, but I think it really takes away from the "art of photography".
Photographers that can achieve similar results without photoshop work are the ones that should be getting more recognition.
Am I the only one that has issue with the changing of the background? Does that not take PP a little too far?
what adding a background in PP is not art all the sudden? what about fiscus and waldman or even darkroom masters like uelsman. don't make dumb remarks. great work and this is nothing like hill.
So what if he used Photoshop. The results are all that matters. A great portrait is a great portrait no matter what tools he used.
I like the lighting, and the PP on the person is fine -- but the clouds in the background look odd. Looks like the man was shot with a different focal length than the clouds.
I would be much more impressed with this shot if it wasn't done in post. Why didn't he simply take the subject outside and get that much closer to the final product in-camera? The strobist showed us not too long ago how to overpower the sun!
I think the original portrait with the standard backdrop is ok, but not great. This shot is all about photoshop skills. I'm not knocking PS skills, but it's a different thing than photography skills.
Thanks DH, for posting this, I was quite inspired by the lighting, and the heavy texture! I decided to apply some of this technique to a recent shoot, minus the beauty dish.
It's so crisp, everyone thinks it's Lucas post processing.
http://flickr.com/photos/greenwoodimages/2550145449/in/pool-strobist
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