[Octane (Humayun)]

Carlos,

Thank you for the compliment! The team was fantastic to work with. I look forward to doing more in the future in the studio.

Originally Posted by ourkind

Stunning photo H!

Makeup, Accesories, Shadows and Tones all compliment the model really well. Her eyes are very soothing. Helmut Newton'esk style.

Larry,

Cheers! This one looked great in colour, but, once I started converting it to monotone it really started to pop out. The tones looked amazing and so I went forward with it. Thanks!

Originally Posted by Larryp

B&W images are even more stunning than the colour ones you posted previously, H!

Bojan,

I haven't done any astrophotography with this lens, as 85mm is a bizarre focal length to photograph the sky at. I suspect it would be fine for spectroscopy. The only images I've made of the sky have been a 30 second star trail image in Milford Sound while I was in New Zealand a couple of years back.

I'm not sure what the edge/corner performance is like, but, this lens is acceptably sharp at f/1.8 and gets sharper once stopped down a stop or two. By f/7.1, I have found it is like a razor. I shot this image at f/16, so, there'll be diffraction effects softening the image, also, which isn't such a bad thing for female portraiture.

I do have an EQ3 lying about; once the Moon disappears, I'll have a quick go at taking a 30 second exposure around the Pleiades at f/1.8 for you.

lol @ the wife not allowing you near her!

Originally Posted by bojan

Interesting..
Do you have a photo of some dense and bright star field (Pleiades, for example, with fully open iris)?

EDIT:
(BTW, my wife would allow me to even come close to her with that lens... )

Adam,

Thanks, kind sir!

This one isn't clamshell lighting; it's straight up hard light from the beauty dish. I used to be all about the umbrellas and softboxes; nowadays, I can't get enough of the beauty dish. It has a hard look but is soft at the same time. Delicious!

The catchlight in the bottom of the eye is a reflector to bounce a little bit of light back into the face. I also used black reflectors to give some edge definition on the face.

I have done clamshell before and it is beautiful, but, I really wanted to shoot the diffused beauty dish on this shoot. I've just ordered a 10 degree grid to direct the light even further and to prevent spill. I like my backgrounds tending to black or a dark grey. Even at f/16, and the Profoto on its lowest power setting, the background lights up too much. The grid will help contain the spill.

Originally Posted by adman

Beuatiful H.

Is that a clamshell type lighting setup - one high, one low and shoot through the middle?

Adam

Thanks all for looking and commenting. I've got some more I'm slowly making my way through from this shoot. I've also got some other models/teams I'll be working with in the next few weeks for a constant supply of images and fun.

H