10 March 2012
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
for an intro on the session, please visit the first part of this blog....
also, have a look at the second part of the blog here....
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...
while playing with the contrasts, we decided to go with some unique liking and disliking... that uniqueness is what defines relationships among couples.... each couple is different and each couple have their own little story..... people may say that such stories are common... hmm... are they?.... probably they are common... but when you combine all those stories we begin to realise how unique each relationship is... its not that easy to bring out the uniqueness in each relationship... and thats why when you succeed in doing it, the satisfaction is so much more.... not just for the photographer, also for the protagonists.... they begin to understand that they are protagonists in their own drama!!
in the previous episode, we showed how Kamal was indulging in his own world.... this time, Pretty comes up with her revenge!!.... well, sort of.... she knows what puts Kamal off.... they were both 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...
we kept the lighting as simple as possible.... we didn't want a wash of light, as we were after some uniqueness of two characters... there had to be two sides of the characters... so, we kept a play of light and shadow on their faces.... two softboxes on two sides (one Lastolite Ezybox 24" Hotshoe and one Shashinki 24").... they were placed in a way so that the background doesn't get washed and there still remains some contrast in the image... two YN-560 flashes did the job in the two softboxes... 28-80mm lens was on the D700 and the trigger was an Elinchrom Skyport on one of the YN flashes... the other one was on optical trigger....
stay tuned for the rest of the story... :)
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
for an intro on the session, please visit the first part of this blog....
also, have a look at the second part of the blog here....
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...
while playing with the contrasts, we decided to go with some unique liking and disliking... that uniqueness is what defines relationships among couples.... each couple is different and each couple have their own little story..... people may say that such stories are common... hmm... are they?.... probably they are common... but when you combine all those stories we begin to realise how unique each relationship is... its not that easy to bring out the uniqueness in each relationship... and thats why when you succeed in doing it, the satisfaction is so much more.... not just for the photographer, also for the protagonists.... they begin to understand that they are protagonists in their own drama!!
in the previous episode, we showed how Kamal was indulging in his own world.... this time, Pretty comes up with her revenge!!.... well, sort of.... she knows what puts Kamal off.... they were both 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...
stay tuned for the rest of the story... :)
