Sean Baker
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Hi. I'm Sean. And I'm very new. If this isn't in the right place, please someone let me know.
I shot the image below at Eastern State Penitentiary a month or two ago using a Canon 5D mounted on... well, on a cheap lightstand because I was too lazy to go get the tripod. Shutter was 20s and triggered by hand. I asked the model to move throughout the room to different positions as if she were possessed (think "The Ring", etc.) and as she arrived in each new location I would manually fire a handheld, gridded Vivitar 283 with a yellow gel @ ~1/32. We did a number of takes; this being my favorite among them, though we were a bit rushed as it was quite cold indoors.
Post processing consisted of curves, color balancing, and more curves. Texture from a wall in the prison was overlayed in PS to add grit (those pesky 20s exposures just lack it).
I am new and I am learning, so any feedback you may have will be helpful and appreciated.
Straight from LR:
I shot the image below at Eastern State Penitentiary a month or two ago using a Canon 5D mounted on... well, on a cheap lightstand because I was too lazy to go get the tripod. Shutter was 20s and triggered by hand. I asked the model to move throughout the room to different positions as if she were possessed (think "The Ring", etc.) and as she arrived in each new location I would manually fire a handheld, gridded Vivitar 283 with a yellow gel @ ~1/32. We did a number of takes; this being my favorite among them, though we were a bit rushed as it was quite cold indoors.
Post processing consisted of curves, color balancing, and more curves. Texture from a wall in the prison was overlayed in PS to add grit (those pesky 20s exposures just lack it).
I am new and I am learning, so any feedback you may have will be helpful and appreciated.
Straight from LR:
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So, background: All of this was shot as part of a Model Mayhem event which my wife (also a photographer) and I attended. We're pure hobbyists, about 1-1.5yrs into playing with photography as we get the time. Getting ready to go, we watched and thought back to all the classic scary movies we'd seen for inspiration. I had the idea of trying to create a photographic interpretation of scenes from "The Grudge" or "The Ring" where the zombified individual is approaching the viewer, shuttering in and out of view, in a clearly surreal situation. A few test shots at home determined that the camera was capable of dropping ISO + increasing aperture adequately to balance a 20-30s exposure with a few sporadic fires of a small flash without an ND filter.