'Alcohol project' post -production and further development

This is a photograph that I am going to use for this project. I've chosen this image because it has the strongest and the most expressive reflection in the bottle which I was aiming for. Also you can still see quite broad part of the model's face so the viewer doesn't loose the eye contact with the main subject.

My chosen image

This is comparison between the raw and manipulated image. My aim was to create strong eye catching piece of imagery with dramatic look and exaggerated textures. I think that strong contrast and unconventional style of post-production would catch the pedestrians' attention quickly.

In terms of post-production I enhanced highlights and shadows using dodge & burn tool. Also I used quite a lot of curve adjustments for separate part of image. I added strong vignette to expose the main subject and sharped the whole image with high -pass filter. The overall time to complete this image was about 4 hours.

Hue and colour experimentation

Final outcome

'Alcohol' project

I attempted to get best face deformation caused by the bottle and I think it worked quite well. In terms of lighting technique I went for high key effect to make my image more vivid and noticeable.

'Marshall' Studio session

For this session I was going for bright even lighting which will allow me to interference further at the stage of post-production. I experimented with different camera angles and different ways of positioning my model.

My lighting set-up

Product Assignemnt 'Vntage Cameras for Peter Loy Company'

Here I uploaded some of my best shots from studio session. I experimented with different lighting set-ups and creating different kinds of composition. Also I added some props such as: vinyl disc to add some vintage feeling to my images, autumn leafs to add some warm colours to give the whole composition a bit of a charm etc.

I used softbox as the main 'key' light and experimented with snoots, grids and reflecting the light with blender.

Proposals

These are a print-screens of my three proposals for portrait&product assignment.

Product project 'KODAK A1'

Portrait project 'Marshall'

Portrait project 2 'alcohol'

My Equipment - Digital and Analogue Lenses

Here I would like to show you the equipment that I have the pleasure to work with. Currently, I'm shooting with Nikon D90 and wide range of digital and analogue lenses. 

my equipment

1. Nikon D90 camera
2. 50mm 1.8 Pentacon analogue lens
3. Nikkor kit lens 18-55mm f3.5 - 5.6
4. Helios 105mm f-3.5 analogue prime lens (manual)
5. Jupiter 200mm f-4 telephoto prime lens (manual)
6. Sigma 70-300mm f4- 5.6 telephoto lens
7. Sigma 10-20mm f3.5 wide angle lens

M42 adapter

You can mount the old manual prime lenses to your DSLR cameras by getting the M42 mount adapter. One of the main advantages of using analogue prime lenses is APERTURE! most of standard 50mm analogue lenses have the aperture from f-2 even up to f-1.4 which gives us amazing. shallow depth of field. If we wanted to get a good DSLR lens with aperture f1.8 we would have to spend about 200 pounds.

Notice- Unfortunately, analogue lenses do not sharp on infinity with Nikon cameras. Nevertheless, I think  that it's still worth to play with these lenses.