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FAD #7: flowers on her shoulder
So, here is today’s offering, entitled flowers on her shoulder:
More details after the jump…
So, since I promised to write a bit more about my FAD shots, here’s the deal.
I shot with the Lensbaby 3G at full aperture on my Nikon D700 in aperture priority mode at ISO 200. Ambient light came from overhead incandescent light (indirect, bouncing all over the white ceiling and walls). I wanted to put a little more ‘edge’ to the tattoo, so I added an SB-800 (gelled to match the color temperature of the overhead light) through a shoot-through umbrella, positioned camera left and just outside the frame. The flash was triggered by an SU-800 on my camera, so flash intensity was fully controlled by Nikon’s CLS system.
A pretty easy and straightforward setup. The Lensbaby produces nice effects, if you manage to achieve proper focus before it drives you insane. The 3G (now fittingly renamed the control freak) is much better in that respect, but it still really made me wish for a damn loupe to put on the viewfinder…
Post processing in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom included slightly elevated exposure and a few tweaks of the color curve; I also reduced overall color saturation and selectively painted higher saturation and clarity back in on the tattoo area.
