Portrait and Beauty with Antoine Tyce

[Franglais]

Last weekend I did a Portrait and Beauty course with Antoine Tyce plus a model and a make-up girl. It was rather intense. We started out with 20 minutes of Photoshop theory and ended with 30 minutes of Photoshop demonstration. I discovered lots of things - that I will need some time to practice. These images are done my usual way.

Having make-up changes was like having 4 different models. At the end of the seance I looked back at the first photos we did and thought they were from another shoot.

A lot of the others had brought macro lenses (= 90 or 105mm on 24x36 body). As there was only one good viewpoint with the lighting, this gave a photographer traffic jam up front (first picture). I stood back with the D200 and 18-200 and used a longer telephoto most of the time.

[Frog]

I can't even imagine but glad you shared the experience.

You've changed your avatar....which one is the real you?

[Franglais]

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You've changed your avatar....which one is the real you?

The monkey, of course.

The cool thoughtful look with the glasses dangling is just what I was trying to achieve when I did my self-portraits in the mirror last year. The image was on a publicity campaign for an optical company. When it arrived in my letterbox I instantly recognised myself. I just had to add the green eyes.

As for the lighting, the second picture gives you an idea of what we were using at the end:

1. A "Bol de beauté" high center left as main light f9
2. A rectangular softbox in front of the model as fill-in (1 stop less powerful than the main light)
3. A small softbox right rear to give some reflections in her hair (same as main light)
4. A single "ear" light on the background at f16

The model stands in the center and about 6-10 feet in front of her there is a scrum of 5 photographers going "Me!" "Me!" "You took my flash" "MeMeMeMeMe!!". Each photographer has a radio module to set off the studio flash but if two shoot at the same time then only one gets the picture. Fortunately the flashes recycle in under a second

[Geer]

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