Studio shoot with Leah.

creators · Studio shoot with Leah.

Oddly enough, I have just paid for my first model and Leah has just received her first modelling fee. So that worked out rather well.

One of my fascinations in life is a woman putting on her make up, I plan to do a whole shoot on this, but that requires a lot of setting up, so these were taken with the on board flash shot looking in the miirror.

Both of these were taken at:
Exposure time: 1/60
F-stop: 5.6
ISO speed: 100

Settings for the following:
Exposure time: 1/200
F-stop: 8.0
ISO speed: 100
I liked this one being off frame for some reason.

hil26

errr - wow - and well done

Britains Next Top Model - maybe?

creators

Thanks Dave. I agree with you that she could be a top model, but she's training as a nursery assistant and loves it, hence the modelling fee. Leah gets £30 a week and I thought, if she was up for it, I could supplement her income and I would get a stunning model to practice with. Whatever she chooses to do with her life she will always have some lovely pictures to look back on, and if she does decide over the next few years to go into modelling, she has a start on her portfolio.

Jan

Very nice pictures Keith.. she is a beautiful looking girl Smile

creators

Thanks Jan, she certainly is a beautiful looking girl . It's a funny thing, beauty, whatever we conceive that to be in a person, it is not something you choose, it's, kinda, pot luck. I dislike people who treat their looks as if they somehow did it or earnt them. It isn't something to be arrogant or superior about, rather, or so it seems to me, something to be grateful for. Leah doesn't take her looks for granted and I don't think she even thinks of herself as particularily beautiful, and I think that comes across. Eye of the beholder and all that.

flapjack · beautiful

shes a very beautiful young lady. They are all super shots - my favourite is the last one. I think it does come across that Leah does not take her looks for granted and I think that is so refreshing. Its great the way you have caputred her personality. Sometimes I look at models in magazines and they seem so arrogant and shallow. Best wishes to Leah in her nursery assistant career - those children will have an excellent person to play and learn with Smile

Venom

Keith great set of shots and I think a shoot on putting makeup on would indeed be an interesting project. The only one I'm not sure of is the one of Leah lying down with the boots over to one side. The boots seem to draw my eye away from her face (and before anyone says it no I've not got a boot fetish Laughing

).

Nice work and she indeed could do well if she ever decided to take up modelling (very natural and confident).

adam

nice work Keith...
the old studio work is coming along a treat...

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Thanks Flapjack, I am extremely fortunate in setting up a studio having a handy, attractive, niece to photograph. I suspect that she'd have little time for all the self important shenanigans that seem to attend the beauty business. In fact someone would probably end up with a black eye, so it's probably for the best.

I think if you had a boot fetish Mike you wouldn't have found the boots a problem. I liked the shot just because it was quite unusual. I am still at the stage of needing to experiment. I didn't do a very good job of the lighting this time, and hence my offer to Leah to pay her for her time. A couple of hours a week would help me enormously.

Thanks Adam, I am certainly feeling more comfortable and less totally all at sea.

hil26

Have now returned and looked again, not least as there is a new image on, and going through them have just noticed the catchlights - a couple of the images have 2 squares which now I have seen them .......

Second image also seems to be suffering from a touch of red eye

Images are still great though

creators

Thanks for commenting Dave, I wouldn't know what to do with the square catchlights, apart from pay an exorbitant amount of money for a HUGE diffuser, instead of the little softbox I do have. Though I have been thinking of rigging something up using maybe cheesecloth. Meanwhile....

No 2 is one of the many I took in the mirror using the on board flash, which I am pretty hopeless at using. In some of them the red eye makes Leah look like the devils own spawn. I could have corrected, but didn't notice, so thanks for pointing it out.

This was the original of that shot.

hil26

Keith

think the only way with the two catchlights maybe is that dreaded clone brush - don't know if its me - but when spotted it is distracting.

maybe, as you say, trying a cheesecloth

Dunno - the large diffuser I obtained with the studio kit recently purchased, gives a massive rectangular catchlight, just look at the image posted recently in the studio thread.

I am looking forward to myself being out of my comfort zone on studio shots - jus wish I had someone that was as happy as Leah to help out - does she want a busmans holiday in North wales? LOL

Teresa, has just said provided I do not post images she will be help.... so will have to do go along flapjack route - and not tell

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Just to follow up the catchlight problem, I really noticed it today doing some pictures and used the smudge tool to just round them off. Thanks for pointing it out Dave.

I should put a trace on Leah when she's off in Wales for free parties so that you can kidnap her. Meanwhile, enjoy the death zone of posting without permission, all will be well...... till she finds out.

micro-leah.

i havnt been on hear for ages due to being really busy with college and work etc. thank you all for your lovely comments, im not quite sure what to say other than ummmm cheerz guys.........