Hey this is Daniel Norton, I'm here in my
studio in New York City with Stephanie,
and we're shooting some kind of a
fashion test, and Stephanie came with
this red dress today. And I thought
instead of trying to shoot against
kind of a playing background, which is
what we were originally thinking, was maybe
use the shape of the dress, right? To be
accented by the window. I have these
curtains here, and we have tons of Sun
coming through, and it's a you know a
dress you'd wear in the Spring, even
though it's cold here in New York City,
so we're trying to, you know, look at the
dress, figure out the emotion of the
dress the feel of the dress and shoot
something that will work with it. So
we're going to do something kind of, kind of
fun by the windows here, and what I'm
going to do, is like, I put her in the window
and I have light bouncing back, you can
see I have these V flats here that I
always use, and I could get an exposure, I
do intend to leave the the shades blown
out, so I could just shoot like that...
right? But I always like to have a manner
of control, so I'm going to use some flash, I
have a Profoto B1 X right here,
it's just going to bounce into the V flat,
to give me a little bit more controlled
light on her. So I've got my Hasselblad
over here, the the X1D, with a 35mm
lens, and I've got my Profoto
controller on top, and what I'm
going to do is set my flash exposure to be
about two stops under roughly the, the
the window. So right now, I'm going to show I
want to shoot it at f/4, so I want to be
a little bit open here, so I'm going to set
my flash in at four. It's good, and I'm
setting up f/ 4 at 250, I'm going to play around
a little bit, the light here in the
studio is changing obviously, as we go so,
I'm going to shoot one, and take a look, so
250, f/4, is what I want to shoot at. I have
a feeling that's going to be too dark for
the windows right this second, but we'll
find out. Yeah, and if you could put your
hand up. I'm tethered into a computer
over here behind me, kind of in the shade,
so I can see it, and we'll basically go
back and forth, and look at it until we
get the shot right, then we can crank
them out, good. There we go, now even
though I could obviously look at the
shot on the camera and it'll be fine, for
a quick reference I'm in the studio. I
like to have the control of looking at
it in focus here, this is Hasselblad
focus, which is there tethering software.
That actually looks pretty decent, I want
the windows to blow out a little bit.
I like the dress I'm going to get a little
bit lower, I want to make sure I get all
of it, and we'll work her pose a little
bit, but I think exposure wise we're good.
So assuming that the light doesn't
change we're going to go 250 at f/4... so yeah,
exactly, a little hip, actually like when
you did a little profile with the face,
good like that, right, we're getting some
of that light come from the back, right,
and we're wrapping it up in here now.
if I didn't light her at all,
she'd be almost a silhouette, so let me just
show you what looks like without the
flash. So I turned the flash off, so at
that same exposure you're looking at, you
know again there is detail there, but it's
more or less a silhouette. So you can
play around with that, wherever you want
the exposure to be. I'm going to try and stay
on the safe side, so make sure I get her
lit nice and even, that's nice like that.
I'm working with the shape of the dress,
with the shape of her body, and I can
play around a little bit with shutter
speed. So right now I'm at 250 I'm going to
drop - to let's say 125, and see what that
looks like actually... lean your head back
towards the window. That's pretty, right
there, good, good, good. So she's got like a
little bit of light hitting around the
the cheekbone from the window, you can
see that, and basically the slower my
shutter is, that the more I'll get that, and it
kind of comes down to, you, how much of
that we want without losing detail on
her face, so it's all about playing the
numbers here. I'm think I'll go a little
bit, a little bit faster on the shutter.
I'm going to go to 1/180 and we'll play
that a little bit. I'm also going to get a
little bit lower, you might see that I
have her up on an Apple box, and the reason
for that is, because I want to have her
be statuesque, and above me, and also I
wanted to make sure the entire dress was
within the frame of the window. Right!
Because again I'm shooting for the
dress, maybe do one more, a little bit
profile with me, with your body, yep.
Exactly, and then just kind of swing your
hips this way, there we go, nice, that leg
up, nice, try that see that, looks like I'm
going to overlap the non window part.
For some of these to see what that looks
like, you know can we definitely, got it
so let me just do a quick change here,
changing my focus point, so focus is
going to definitely be critical here,
because again this is, even though this
is a tiny little camera, this IS a medium
format camera, it's funny, it's smaller
than a lot of DSLRs but it's got a huge, huge
sensor, which means that my depth of
field is going to be very shallow, and
really, really nice. Good, right, there
actually, look towards the right, no your
left, I'm sorry. Yep.. camera, there we go,
perfect, that's perfect, and we do one
more like that, that, that looks pretty
good. Always do a quick review before you
say yes. Yeah it looks pretty nice,
Good, good, good, get the flow of the dress,
you know what I want to do, and one do
one more, that's actually great. Except
spin slightly this way, I just want to
fix the dress I'm just going to fix the
dress a little bit, got a little bit too
much booty. Ok, I want to make sure it
looks good, there we go, perfect, nice one
more like that, this way, with your face..
Good, good... just like that, here we go, one
more, one more, that's perfect. I like that.
Yeah, that's good, yeah, lift it up, lift up
with your left hand. Yeah, yeah, ok, ok
yeah, perfect, perfect, perfect, good, good, good.
Yeah, so she's adding some ripples which
is nice nice, here we go, one more, perfect
awesome.
So look at you, relax. She's getting tied
up! So yeah, when you're shooting,
especially a test, where you don't have
the time to plan it out, like of course if
this was a catalog, if the designer came
to me and said. Hey! I have all these
flowy, you know dresses. I might have
set up a whole elaborate thing, because I
may have had it ready, but in a test you
have to kind of quickly evaluate what
the models got, and try to make it work.
Don't just shoot everything really super
plain, it can be boring after a while, you
know this actually adds to it... You're
kind of showcasing the shape of the
dress. Obviously I didn't stick her
behind the curtains, I didn't put too
many curtains, I didn't want to overpower
the shot. I want to keep it kind of
work with it, but not overpowering. So in
adding a little flash, just gives you a
little more control. So be sure to follow
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