Hey this is Daniel Norton.
I'm here in my studio in New York City
with Paulina and today we're doing kind
of a fashion shot.
We had this a beautiful Fila sparkly ...
I love my sparklies... so we wanted to
play with this, and create kind of a cool
shot for it.
It's kind of sporty...
but it's kind of like ... you might wear it
out to the club right?
So you know I mean...
if you go to the gym in this you're
actually not working out, we know that right?
So it's more of a fashionable
piece, and since we weren't like in a
cool location to shoot or whatever when
we're in the studio,
we decided to mix it
up a little bit.
I did originally shoot it maybe like on
white, but it was kind
of boring and catalogue...
so we decided to create something that a
bit of a sunlight feel... be using my 400 HMI from
Dedolight up there,
and we'll start there and I'll show you
guys what we got.
So we get Pauline into the light... so it's
gonna be very dramatic right?
We're gonna have a dramatic light coming
from one side, so we do have to watch
how she keeps her face but this is gonna
help the shape... it's also -
the specularity of it is going to...
you'll notice....
it's going to cause the sparkles to sparkle
on her arm and we're gonna play around a
little bit with that right?
When you're showing something that is
sparkly or reflective...
show it as sparkly, clients are always
like that's too reflective...
No it's like... it's supposed to look like that right?
I mean so you want to let them
know like that's the point right?
So that was a little bit boring though with the
gray background, so I decided to add
some color, and there's a lot of different
ways to do it.
I had these really fun glass filters from
Dedolight as well, this is in my 200 HMI...
and you can see that this...
I've got it in here, it's blue,
so give a good, good contrast...
so we can sharpen or defocus it as we want.
I'm gonna go a little sharp ... what do you think?
It was like a.. like some kind of weird... like
modern effect, so I think that could be
interesting in the background.
So we'll see what that looks like...
by the way I'm at f/2...
so that, even though it's sharp
back there...
It's gonna be more or less out of focus.
Good you got to keep that in mind...
when you're doing this stuff right?
Your... see now we've added
this like graphic right?
So there she is ...
she's looking great she's got some
sparkles on her, got some sort... goes on
her arm, the background has this graphic
feel to it, which is kind of cool,
and yeah I mean, some people would stop
there, but we don't do that right, we do
not stop there... we want to add a little
fill because it's a little dark on the
side, look when she's facing me... we're
gonna have some issues with the
shadows, so I could just put a regular
reflector in there...
however for this week only on sale...
Red reflector right?
Red reflector... red outfit,
we're gonna fill our shadows in
with a bit of a red color...
So you could also if you want to...
use an active feel, like a flash,
you could just put a red yellow on right,
but this is a nice way to do it,
nice and simple because remember
whenever you are reflecting anything
whatever color the object is is gonna reflect back.
So like negative fill reflects back
black right?
Because it's negative.
Positive fill like, like white cards
reflect back white... but a red one will be
red, so we can see I took two pictures
for some reason..
We can see neutral and then we can see
red, and that looks really nice with
the skin tone... it looks really nice for this
whole thing.
She's looking all athletic...
and at the club, so we'll shoot a few like that...
I'm just gonna work through it,
I'm using the Nikon Z6 which is kind of nice, because
I'm seeing my exposure as it goes like
kind of like adjust if need be... but I'm
also tethered, that's nice, actually block
her face a little bit, that was kind of cool.
I'm either gonna love that or hate it.
It's hard to say yeah, there we go,
depends how much sparkles we get... a
little bit more in front, there we go,
chin up a smidge... good.
I'm going to try to see what that looks like,
sometimes you gotta mix
it up a little bit... sometimes it doesn't
work, alright so, no we won't do that, okay,
good, good, good, chin up
I'll shoot a couple more...
cause I get paid by the frame... there
we go, one more like that,
let's just go straight on to me now...
like oh yeah tough, that's it,
good, like that, beautiful.
So I already walked away,
because I knew I was gonna be good,
because I have my fill, there is enough
detail here on her eye.
She looks great, the shirt looks great,
it's all nice...going to do one quick thing
I'm just gonna defocus the background,
just curious, just cuz we can...
for one more.
I like it because I think it works with the
pattern and everything, but I feel like
if you want it to be more clean, bring
your arm back a smidge right?
There good, now it's more out of focus
right... we can affect that.. actually do it
with norm, because straight on I think it's
too much shadow on your face.
Yeah that's perfect, we can focus on here
good.
I'm cropped in a little bit more.. like a
portrait to see what it looks like.
A lot of times I'm trying to figure out
exposure guys, I'll come in close and
shoot the face, because that's kind of
what's important there, and now back up
and get the whole thing.
Good, like that, one more, good,
last one, good,
fantastic, well looks good to me, lots of
good options.
Okay my first option.. my
first inclination was correct, I
definitely liked the in focus
in the background, I think it works cuz
this whole thing is very graphic right?
We'll do it, we're making a graphic
look with the shadows and stuff, so they
have a smoothy autofocus background.
Didn't really work, so play around, that's
why you have different tools to work
with, so when you're working with
something that's like a fashion item,
think about like the vibe of it, like
that's what I always do when I walk into this.
This is like sporty, right?
So I want to shoot sporty sporty...
even though it's got a little glam to it,
and you want to take advantage of things
that are inherent in the garment right?
This garment is sparkly,
when it gets hit by a hard light,
so we don't necessarily want
to throw a big soft box on it.
It's gonna kind of..
not have that effect that we
have here..
So play around, have a lot of
fun, that's what fashion is about...
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