Photographing Women: 1,000 Poses by Siegel Eliot

Author:Siegel, Eliot [Siegel, Eliot]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pearson Education
Published: 2012-09-26T00:00:00+00:00

Disco fever

The strong patterns of the garment and the big afro-style hair are very retro, which is reflected in the color of the background. The model elongates a simple side crouch by using her hands as supports. This means the photo becomes a horizontal—or landscape—image, making it easy to use on a double-page spread in a magazine. (Yulia Gorbachenko)

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Sea of Jeans

The mechanical aspect:

An intriguing image shot in a trendy jeans store, the model’s crouch lifts her above the denim sea beneath her, so that her own jeans are visible, yet keeps her low enough to draw our attention to the denim.

Use with:

This is all about the jeans, but could be transferred to another setting in which you want to draw attention to the lower half of the model and scene.

Tech talk:

The image is a mixture of flash with an umbrella to keep it on the softer side, and the ambient lighting already present in the showroom. To balance the two lights, use a tripod for the camera and set the flash to low power. Experiment with a slow shutter speed (approx 1/60 second to start with) to allow the ambient lighting of the chandeliers to burn itself into the image. If the ambient light doesn’t show up enough, slow down the shutter speed until it does.

(Angie Lázaro)

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