10 March 2012
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
for an intro on the session, please visit the first part of this blog....
Pretty and Kamal are one of the most interesting couples we have had the chance to do a photosession with... as usual, we were thinking of building a story around them... a story that they live through everyday... we thought of bringing that story out within a dramatic context... the story would remain the same, but the screenplay would be from a drama series of some sort...
one of the first stories that emerged from the couple was their love-hate relationship with certain objects and habits... every relationship has its contrasts... and sometimes the contrasts are so stark that its hard to believe that the relationship actually exists... but we tend to forget that the contrasts show the real strength of the bonding.... a bonding that is strong that despite all those contrasts, love prevails....
anyway, actually it doesn't really require any description for a series like this one.... the visuals are strong enough to understand what goes on in their minds.... Pretty and Kamal both were very spontaneous with their expressions.... it had to be, as it was the story of their own life.... so, it came almost naturally.... we just put them in a dramatic context to bring some action in it...
lighting was critical here... there had to be two layers of lighting here, as the subjects had a fair bit of gap between them.... used the 28-80mm lens (on D700) for convenience here... and was shooting between 35mm and 40mm.... this focal length gave a chance to use perspective to bring out the drama.... two softboxes (Lastolite Ezybox 24" Hotshoe and Shashinki 24") were used for the two subjects, both camera left... a YN-560 flash in each of them.... Elinchrom Ranger RX system played a secondary role as an edge-light with a grid spot... also camera left... a single YN-560 with blue gel and grid spot was on the other side to provide edge light for the subject in front of the camera... Elinchrom Skyport was the trigger used here on the Ranger unit... other flashes were on optical trigger mode...
thats it... hope to publish the rest of the story ASAP.... stay tuned... :)
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
for an intro on the session, please visit the first part of this blog....
Pretty and Kamal are one of the most interesting couples we have had the chance to do a photosession with... as usual, we were thinking of building a story around them... a story that they live through everyday... we thought of bringing that story out within a dramatic context... the story would remain the same, but the screenplay would be from a drama series of some sort...
one of the first stories that emerged from the couple was their love-hate relationship with certain objects and habits... every relationship has its contrasts... and sometimes the contrasts are so stark that its hard to believe that the relationship actually exists... but we tend to forget that the contrasts show the real strength of the bonding.... a bonding that is strong that despite all those contrasts, love prevails....
anyway, actually it doesn't really require any description for a series like this one.... the visuals are strong enough to understand what goes on in their minds.... Pretty and Kamal both were very spontaneous with their expressions.... it had to be, as it was the story of their own life.... so, it came almost naturally.... we just put them in a dramatic context to bring some action in it...
lighting was critical here... there had to be two layers of lighting here, as the subjects had a fair bit of gap between them.... used the 28-80mm lens (on D700) for convenience here... and was shooting between 35mm and 40mm.... this focal length gave a chance to use perspective to bring out the drama.... two softboxes (Lastolite Ezybox 24" Hotshoe and Shashinki 24") were used for the two subjects, both camera left... a YN-560 flash in each of them.... Elinchrom Ranger RX system played a secondary role as an edge-light with a grid spot... also camera left... a single YN-560 with blue gel and grid spot was on the other side to provide edge light for the subject in front of the camera... Elinchrom Skyport was the trigger used here on the Ranger unit... other flashes were on optical trigger mode...
thats it... hope to publish the rest of the story ASAP.... stay tuned... :)
