Unretouched shots straight from the scanner, some quick film work for Mary’s portfolio, just so she can have a visual of her senior work. You can see the rest of the super rough scans on flickr, if you’re interested, though they will be down once I’ve finished working on the final images she selects.
If you’re wondering what I’ve got left to do to them, it generally goes in this order: Crop off the border remnants, dust spot, levels, curves, then misc retouching on a by image basis. I prefer to leave things as natural as possible, but sometimes I can fix minor screw ups.
I really love this series of shots. The minimalism of the background really serves as a complement to the models and clothing. I love the use of space in the shots. All and all I think all of these have so sophisticate charm. The 2nd and 5th one are my faves.
Ian reply on July 1st, 2008 8:41 am:
Thanks. Originally she just wanted some shots in the studio on white paper, since she just needed pictures to show her clothing. I convinced her to do it outside, but with a simple background, just to make it a little more interesting.
This kind of work will always be hard for me, because of the limited control over the styling and makeup, (In my own work, I generally prefer no makeup, etc) but I think the location was a good thing for it.
Nordia reply on July 1st, 2008 8:51 am:
The location was excellent. I think if they were white in a studio it would just be a little boring overall. Like I said before the location really is a great compliment to the clothing. What kind of film did you use for the colour shots?
Ian reply on July 1st, 2008 8:54 am:
Let me check, I tend to use whatever I have in my fridge these days. (I’m shooting all my summer personal work on expired film from 1992, haha)
It was shot on Fuji Pro 400H with my Rolleicord V. The black and white film was shot with my Mamiya 645 on Ilford FP4, if you were wondering.
Nordia reply on July 1st, 2008 11:39 am:
Thanks you for letting me know. I’ve developed a recent interest in film and I loved how the colour came out in your shots.
Ian reply on July 1st, 2008 11:53 am:
Thanks!
Film type is definitely a factor in color, more so in the color darkroom. When scanning, it goes through processing when it’s scanned and then you can also shift it around in photoshop (though I haven’t done that yet for these). I try to get it close to what I want in the scan so I only have minimal tweaking in PS.
Comment by Nordia — July 1, 2008 @ 5:33 am