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geeewocka — Pain Division before n after
Published: 2007-10-30 09:34:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 4019; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 0
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Thought I'd throw up the before and after image of my recent promo shoot for local aussie band Pain DivisionTaken with a very professional setup
Small recording studio room, 2xPink (no black on hand) bedsheets taped to the wall, 2x 100W strobes (one of which ended up in smoke & leaking haha) setup on either side of the band...though the one synced to my camera was significantly brighter, Canon 40D w/ Tamron 28-75mm f2.8, handheld, myself + the band
Lights off, strobes set to model lamp, so I could auto focus....it was fairly dark
EXIF data from this shot -
Canon 40D
1/200sec
f/11.0
ISO320
28mm
Spot Metering
White Balance manually set to 5600k
Post Processing done in Adobe Photoshop CS
-Using the magic wand tool + magnetic lasso, I selected around each of the band members & painted the background black
-Auto levels + Auto Colours
-+7 Contrast
-Selective colouring - Black +2
-Dodge tool - set to Highlights at 10%, brushing of the face
-Colour burn - set to Highlights, slight brushing of the arms & tattoos
-Duplicate Layer - Channel Mixer - set to Monochrome
-Contrast - +10 or so
-Soft light layering
-Set opacity to 25%
-flatten image
-Unsharp Mask
And we're done
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Comments: 12
To tell you the truth I actually rather like the pink background, it gives a nice contrast. The post-processing work is very well done though
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heheh they beg to differ....it would give away their soft/humourous side 
cheers!
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if you put a strobe in the bac of the sheets it woulda gotten rid of the shadow casted, but sinc eit was taped to the wal i guess that wasnt possible, i did that in a fotoshoot once and it did wonders gettin rid of the shadows caste donto the sheets
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yeh i've heard of that method....creates a nice coloured halo too doesn't it?
I've only got 2 strobes to work with now & I am not sure if the one at the back will trigger seeing as it goes off when the other flashes....is there a way to sync BOTH up to my cam body?
Can you get a splitter or something?
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ye sit does actually a very nice glowy halo, i have no idea... i suppso eyou can always splaice the wire, or get a spare wire to splice then conenct, i wish i had equipemnt to try it on, i'd let you know asap
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yeh I got no idea....it only came with a sync for each light....it can probably be done with a wireless transmitor, but that'd cost more than the lighting itself >.<
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there has to be a way to sync them liek a daisy chain though.... it doesn tmake sense for it not to be linkable....
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yeh that's what I thought
have to do a bit of research I thinks
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Cool! 
I like this, usefull for me, as I'm starting to do some "studio" shots myself ^^
Thanks!
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good luck
only my second....hoping for more if it's possible - I find it harder to control light rather than work with what I have infront of me
bands don't ask me for shoots very often these days, which is a shame!!
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