03 January 2012
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Riad is a nice guy.... well, a bit too nice to say that he had nurtured a bit of disappointment at some hidden corner somewhere.... so, it was time to wipe that disappointment off.... he brought in some redundant stuff which he thought might be of use for our photography... but we ended up using all of that shooting him.... what else did we have to do on a nice Tuesday afternoon??
Riad is a big fan of movies.... you name it, he's got some opinion on it.... big fan of action flicks, he always had some of his favourite characters in his mind.... sometimes even trying to replicate them in some way or the other.... its always been a fight within himself.... trying to be something which always lives in imagination....
anyway, keeping that fight in mind, we decided to turn him into a character, which would resemble some tough character, quite opposite to his actual personality.... through expressions and gestures we tried to make different frames with different message... some typical of the character he tried to resemble; some typical of the fight that rages in his heart....
we kept the lighting simple.... as we were doing some low-key sorta stuff, black on black... backlight was essential.... a YN-560 with grid spot on it as the backlight, triggered in optical trigger mode (S1).... another YN-560 inside a Lastolite 24" Ezybox Hotshoe softbox as key light from camera left.... the key light was triggered by an Elinchrom Skyport radio trigger.... used a D70s with a 50mm 1.4 lens.... shot mostly around f2.8....
a lot more to come....
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Riad is a nice guy.... well, a bit too nice to say that he had nurtured a bit of disappointment at some hidden corner somewhere.... so, it was time to wipe that disappointment off.... he brought in some redundant stuff which he thought might be of use for our photography... but we ended up using all of that shooting him.... what else did we have to do on a nice Tuesday afternoon??
Riad is a big fan of movies.... you name it, he's got some opinion on it.... big fan of action flicks, he always had some of his favourite characters in his mind.... sometimes even trying to replicate them in some way or the other.... its always been a fight within himself.... trying to be something which always lives in imagination....
anyway, keeping that fight in mind, we decided to turn him into a character, which would resemble some tough character, quite opposite to his actual personality.... through expressions and gestures we tried to make different frames with different message... some typical of the character he tried to resemble; some typical of the fight that rages in his heart....
we kept the lighting simple.... as we were doing some low-key sorta stuff, black on black... backlight was essential.... a YN-560 with grid spot on it as the backlight, triggered in optical trigger mode (S1).... another YN-560 inside a Lastolite 24" Ezybox Hotshoe softbox as key light from camera left.... the key light was triggered by an Elinchrom Skyport radio trigger.... used a D70s with a 50mm 1.4 lens.... shot mostly around f2.8....
a lot more to come....
