Smaller Fomat Nudes

[Dan Quan]

Tri-X in a Hasselblad (mostly the negative, but with a hole cut out on the head to reveal the positive)
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Fuji FP-3000B instant film in a Polaroid back
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Lovin em!

Way to go!

Love to see all the technical details (tech deets ).

[axs810]

GPX- On the last two FP3000b photos, what was your light set up like and what light modifiers did you use? I like how soft the shadows are in the second to last photo...really contours her figure and adds a nice quality to the image


Did you use two silver umbrellas for those shots? I'm trying to figure it out by the double shadows :P

[StoneNYC]

Fuji FP-3000B instant film in a Polaroid back
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Enjoying these.

[GPX]

Two studio flashes, each with a big softbox. Probably at 45% each side, to the front. So nothing special. Regarding the camera settings, I used a modern Sekonic light meter, the one with the touchscreen, which takes flash readings. (The studio manager commented he hadn't seen a light meter used in years!) Probably was 1/125th second with an aperture of f11 or so. Often I shoot wide open to get shallow depth of field, but I think in this case I went for smaller aperture because I was too lazy to walk over and turn the flash powers down.

If you want to know the truth about model shoots, the most important thing for getting good results is to be chatting with the model and making it lively and fun, the technical settings are only the second most important thing!

[Genfer]

GPX: very nice work !!!

[resummerfield]

Awesome stuff GPX! I like the negative photo with the cut out head as a positive..very interesting technique....

That's what I was thinking! Awesome!

[Stoogley]

Tri-X in a Hasselblad (mostly the negative, but with a hole cut out on the head to reveal the positive)
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Curious as to how you got the neg/pos to come out like this.

[axs810]

Perhaps photoshop?

[StoneNYC]

Curious as to how you got the neg/pos to come out like this.

The poster told you exactly how, they just did such a good job you aren't seeing it...

It's mostly the negative... With a hole cut in the models face to expose the positive, so you are seeing a positive printed face, and the rest is the negative...

[GPX]

Yes, I did not physically cut a print, I did it in Photoshop. A neg layer over a pos layer, delete a circle over her head from the top layer to reveal the layer underneath.

To be honest I find Photoshop a bit of a bore! Plus I am wary of the "Fake Photoshop" look that is so common these days. So I only have the basic version of Photoshop, Elements, rather than the full version. And I only use it for the same sort of adjustments I used to do in the darkroom. This pic is one of the rare occasions where I have done something "Photoshoppy" - but I figure it's okay because it is no different from what I could have done by cutting a hole in a physical print.