Making of : Portrait at Steemfest2 "Face of Firepower Crew"
One late night at steemfest me and Varun @wandereronwheels were chatting.
At some point I've said - hey, you are cool dude let me take some professional portrait of you,
Bare in mind that I'm full time professional photographer,
but from time to time I love to shoot just for fun in fact shooting for fun gives me more pleasure
So quickly I've set my lighting and start taking pictures.
First few shots was just to get the light right, create something out of nothing.
It is challenging but it's fun.
Here I would like to brake it down full process of making it.
First part of shot - 01:18 am , (9 different shots)
Just quick light set and see if we can build something on the top of that,
I didn't worry about composition that is the reason why is so many rubbish in the background,
bare in mind that our crew has been working at the @steemfest almost 24/7 so forgive mess in the background
Start shot UNEDITED
Second part of Shoot - 01:22 am (32 different shots)
Build the lighting, clear all rubbish from the background and make the person feel more comfortable,
get right outfit and relaxed on the front of camera
Building shot UNEDITED
Third part of Shot - 01:41 am (10 different shots)
As soon as Varum was comfortable, I've had to add a little bit backlight to make photo look warmer
UNEDITED PHOTO STRAIGHT FROM CAMERA
Final Edit - 01:47 am (1 final shot)
Just change a little bit in the shadows, highlight slight color temperature correction, nothing major.
Final Shot and final edit
Whole photoshoot with getting final photo took 29 minutes and 52 photos
It could be longer, however we were tired after full day of walking around Lisbon, so we called it a day
By the way @firepower meant to be next, poor guy was so tired and sleepy that he couldn't keep awake.
Next year we will do all crew, actually who knows maybe everyone at @steemfest
If you like an idea of me braking up the process of taking photo from each photoshoot give me shout.
I'm thinking to do weekly tutorials, lessons about light, composition working with camera.
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Great photos, I think that the second one is the best, but the background and posing are cool in the third and fourth. Would be great if you did some tutorials. :)
Thanks, yeah I like the second one too, it can go along with the set. Could be few different photos. In fact I believe that I should add reflector on the right side, however we were too tired to continue.
ok bro thanks
Tutorials would be very helpful for a lot of people out here :D Great post man and thanks for the feature ;)
I will appreciate those tutorials @mynewlife, I'm planning to buy a professional camera to start exploring the photography world.
Professional ? Or small..... To be honest I'm not into gimmicks, so camera it's the last thing you should get to get nice photos. For example all my travel photographs I use only iPhone.... But something small and compact - Fuji , Sony.......
I already use my phone to take photos, which actually has a nice camera, but I miss the feeling of a real camera if you know what I mean. I've been thinking about a Canon EOS 1300D. .
Honestly, I would get something compact , between Sony - Fuji , I think Fuji xt are nice, but it has fixed lens, but great for street photo, little travel compact camera and nice for portraits.... I actually don't look at the gear nowadays, since you got what you need you just shoot, not checking whats new....
It was great meeting you. I was inspired to create my first post! I look forward to following you here on steemit :)
Same here, nice to meet you I wish there more time to speak with everyone! Perhaps next year, we will have chance to catch up more.