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When the hot-rod show<\/a> which didn’t offer as much in terms of photography as I had hoped, Jill and I moved over to the pier in Brooklyn. Having a model in a retro sailor-suit type outfit … well, it just seemed to good an opportunity to waste. I thought of perhaps using the Ice Cream Factory there as a backdrop to a straight-forward pinup photo, but ultimately decided the Hudson River waterfront would work better as a setting for the photo.<\/p>\n Then we just had to add some simple but dynamic lighting, and give the final image a vintage flavor with the post-processing …<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here are the two starting images:<\/p>\n Why those final settings? Simply because I liked the way it looked on the back of my camera. Turns out to be 1.7 stops under the regular proper exposure. Sounds about right.<\/p>\n Then I had to add light. My setup was simplicity itself, resorting to my usual on-location lighting setup when working with an individual subject such as a model: I used the flash in TTL mode, triggered via the TT5 units.<\/p>\n Here is the out-of-the-raw converter image on the left, with the final processed image on the right:<\/p>\n I wanted the look of the image to have a warm retro feel to it, so I used a Photoshop action to give it a warmer, more vintage-y look:<\/p>\n image settings: Here is the pull-back shot to show the relative placement of the softbox.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nikon D3; \u00a0Nikon 24-120mm f\/4 VR<\/a>\u00a0(B&H) photo session – vintage pinup style (on location) When the hot-rod show which didn’t offer as much in terms of photography as I had hoped, Jill and I moved over to the pier in Brooklyn. Having a model in a retro sailor-suit type outfit … well, it just seemed to good an opportunity to waste. Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,22,31,32,1],"tags":[264,263],"yst_prominent_words":[11424,11416,11411,4662,11423,5350,11425,11418,11413,8960,6262,11427,11420,8959,8950,8945,4657,4653,11415,8961],"class_list":{"0":"post-8960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-digital-imaging","8":"category-flash-photography","9":"category-lighting","10":"category-photo-shoot","11":"category-photoshop","12":"category-uncategorized","13":"tag-retro-pinup-style-photo-session","14":"tag-vintage-photo-session","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8960"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50332,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions\/50332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/jill\/NV3_2958-duo-1200.jpg\")
\nThe first one with the camera settings so that I have correct ambient exposure. But the image looks bland. There’s no punch to it. \u00a0(1\/200 @ f4 @ 400 ISO)
\nThe next image was with the camera set to where I wanted the background exposure to be – darker and with more mood. \u00a0(1\/250 @ f6.3 @ 400 ISO)<\/p>\n
\nLastolite EZYBOX Softbox Kit (24″x24″)<\/a>\u00a0(B&H), with the speedlight,
\nwhich is controlled by two\u00a0PocketWizard FlexTT5 transceivers<\/a>\u00a0(B&H)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/jill\/NV3_2962-vintage-duo-1200.jpg\")
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\n1\/250 @ f6.3 @ 400 ISO … TTL flash \u00a0(FEC not recorded)
\nNikon D3; \u00a0Nikon 24-120mm f\/4 VR<\/a>\u00a0(B&H) .. used at 70mm<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/jill\/tangents\/NV3_2991-900.jpg\")
<\/p>\nCamera gear used during this photo session<\/h2>\n
\nLastolite EZYBOX Softbox Kit (24″x24″)<\/a>\u00a0(B&H)
\nManfrotto 1004BAC light-stand<\/a>\u00a0(B&H)
\nNikon SB-910 Speedlight<\/a>\u00a0controlled by\u00a0PocketWizard FlexTT5 &\u00a0AC3 Controller<\/a>
\nor alternately, the\u00a0Canon 600EX-RT Speedlite<\/a>\u00a0controlled by\u00a0Canon ST-E3 Transmitter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"