pin-up style photo session – a hot day
Continuing on with the pin-up series with Jessica, we decided on the concept for this session as ‘A Hot Day’. Skimpy summer holiday clothing; ice cream; a fan (with the blades made whirly in Photoshop) .. and incongruously, one of my cats walking through the set, looking for attention …
OllieKat came and went for a few photos, but only that one really worked with him in it. But there was one other moment that had us in hysterics. Like any other cat, he has a wild imagination, and at some point came charging through for no real reason, determination on his face, effectively “photo-bombing” us.
That expression on my cat’s face is just priceless!
On the topic of photo bombs, I assume everyone has seen this clip explaining the new Photo Bomb Tool in Photoshop CS5 ? This is going to prove invaluable.
The setup is exactly the same as shown in the previous post – a Profoto 3×4 softbox nearly in line with the camera to provide soft even light. Two Quantum flashes to the side to light up the background.
Equipment used during this photo session:
Nikon D3; Nikon 24-70mm f2.8 AF-S (B&H);
Profoto AcuteB 600R power pack (B&H); Profoto 3×4 softbox (B&H)
Red-Wing light-stands; Pocket-Wizard Plus II Tranceiver (B&H)
.. and a bunch of Quantum gear.
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Comment by Dragos — September 22, 2010 @ 5:12 pm
Neil,
Are you and Jessica working towards that full-year calendar for her D700 fund? :-)
Nice work, as always.
Cats love paper and setups. They’re always curious.
Comment by Stephen — September 22, 2010 @ 6:06 pm
hey, where’s the sunglasses jess?
Comment by dave — September 22, 2010 @ 7:08 pm
A bit OT, but why is there no VR in the Nikon 24-70mm?
Comment by Ten — September 22, 2010 @ 7:28 pm
meow
Comment by Robert Gordon — September 22, 2010 @ 7:53 pm
Stephen, yes, these pin-up sessions will hopefully bring a 2011 calendar to fruition, all in the name of camera gear!
Dave, the sunglasses were probably what OllieKat was charging after ;o)
Comment by Jess — September 22, 2010 @ 8:16 pm
The only thing I would make a comment on is that the fan looks like it is not part of the photograph it just kind of hangs in the air because it doesn’t have a shadow of any kind.
Comment by Arnold — September 22, 2010 @ 11:58 pm
Comment by Neil vN — September 23, 2010 @ 12:04 am
Love the photo bomb tool video – thanks for pointing it out – great start to the day.
Comment by Pasquier — September 23, 2010 @ 12:08 am
Love these shots, the cat is great! The fan appears as if the cable is running behind her if you ask me. Great shots, does Jess ever show off her photography on here or her own blog?
Comment by Dan — September 23, 2010 @ 7:43 am
Hi Dan – Yes, Jess does have her own blog. While it’s I find it a little inappropriate to hijack Neils site for the showing in of my own work, secretly, if you click my name, it’ll take you to my blog (still in it’s early stages). But, shhhh, don’t tell Neil. ;)
Comment by Jess — September 23, 2010 @ 9:43 am
The photo bombing cat is hysterical. Glad you caught that.
Comment by Chell — September 23, 2010 @ 2:24 pm
The cat was doing you a service, making sure that you didn’t leave out the most important subject! ;)
Lovely shots!
Comment by Amy — September 23, 2010 @ 4:16 pm
Thanks Jess, I didn’t want to ask and hijack his site either but I didn’t see a link anywhere and I like to follow a couple of blogs to see various techniques. Thanks again, you are very photogenic.
Comment by Dan — September 23, 2010 @ 4:26 pm
Wow, thanks to the video I posted on the Photoshop Bomb Tool, this site is tossing my blog a lot of traffic.
I just wanted to say hi and thanks.
The work here is great BTW.
If you all don’t already have a tumblr site you need to get one.
ciao!
Comment by Jessica — September 23, 2010 @ 5:25 pm
The other day we shot a 360 of a model on a hand built table for bypinup.com. I thought you might enjoy it.
http://www.photospherix.com/4.asp?aid=pu_vr3.swf&theID=238
Let me know what you think.
Comment by PhotoSpherix — October 15, 2010 @ 12:19 pm
I LOVE the cat’s face! Mine does similar darting thru the household while holding his ears in “trans-sonic flight” position. The speed of my guy is unbelievable. It covers the length of the first floor, jumping over sofas and other obstacles in less than two seconds.
Comment by Bogdan — November 12, 2011 @ 2:25 pm