Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Greenberg Experiment

This week we learned a complex 7 strobe set up similar to Jill Greenberg's style of lighting. It was alot of fun, as always! The set up seemed a little intimidating at first but as soon as I got everything set up I felt just right.  Here are my variations on the set up.

 This is probably one of my favorite images from the bunch. This was all the lights turned on with a light blue gel on the side left.


 This was shot with just the front three heads on. I like the simplicity.


 For this I had all the strobes on. There was a dark blue gel on back left and a green gel on the backdrop. I really enjoy the colors in this and the blue light on her hair and shoulder.


For this shot I got very experimental! I stood on left side of the set up with the model facing backwards. I really enjoy the effect I got with the flair.


The following are my variations edited in Capture. I did skin retouching in PS but thats all.

This image was shot with all the lights on and no gels. This one is minimal editing. I did basic adjustments using brightness, contrast, and color balance.

For this I used local adjustments to change her eye color and lip color. I played with color balance, color temperature, contrast, brightness and saturation as well. I wanted the image to have a cooler more modern feel.

Here I again used the local adjustments to change her eye color and lip color. I played with color balance, color temperature, contrast, brightness and saturation as well. I wanted this image to have a warmer more romantic/classic feel.

Again I used the local adjustments to change her eye color and slightly her lip color. I played with color balance, color temperature, contrast, tint, brightness and saturation as well. I wanted this image to have a cooler greenish tone. I made her eyes green and added more magenta/purple to the color of her lips to compliment.

2 comments:

  1. The title of your post makes me think of scientific experiments, or the manhattan project.

    What's your post-process like? I'm really into the style, but I can't figure out what you did.

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  2. Haha Ok its kinda complex but the basic idea is to make a mask of the skin and use the High Pass filter to retain the skins texture. Then under that layer I can airbrush the skin without loosing detail ;) You can also add a levels layer to better control the the tones on the skin. Hope that makes sense in a brief way.

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