26 October 2010

Contemplation by Bill Gekas

Contemplation

5 questions about this photo:

Q1. What equipment did you use?
Pentax K7, DA40 ltd lens, Westcott 50" softbox camera left with Yongnuo YN460-II flash inside at 1/4 power fired with Cactus V4 rf trigger.

Q2. What settings did you have on your camera?
Manual, ISO 100, 1/180 , f/6.7

Q3. What software did you use during the post-production?
Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS3

Q4. Who is the model?
Model is my 3 year old daughter as she's always available when an idea clicks in my head.

Q5. How did you come up with the idea of this shot?
I've been sort of interested in the late 19th century paintings of child portraits and wanted to recreate something similar. Originally it was meant to be in color but the vintage B&W seemed the better choice. We shot about 20 or so frames and towards the end I got this one shot where she was looking down and we went with it.

Extra Q: Please share an interesting or funny fact that happened while working on this photograph.
Getting a 3 year old not to fool around is the difficulty. Q: So how do you bribe a 3 year old to co-operate? A: "Chupa-Chups".

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