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Portraits of Jessica
Portraits 101 continues...my attempt at becoming adept at taking portraits, both formal and informal, natural light and flash/strobe assisted. This time it's a somewhat legit situation. One of the other photogs at work sent out an email asking if anyone was interested in helping his friend update her portfolio pictures...so obviously I volunteered. Her name is Jessica Smith, she's currently studying acting and theatre here in Wellington, and also does a bit of modelling.
I sent her an email with a link to my flickr site and I guess she liked my pics enough to let me take her pics...or maybe it was just the fact that I told her I wouldn't charge her...hmmm...ya, probably the freebie.
Anyways, we met up downtown and shot a bunch of pics inside the lounge at the Embassy Theatre. There's nobody in the theatre on a Saturday afternoon. Not sure if the movies don't start til later in the afternoon, or if everyone just has better things to do, especially when the weather is as good as it was today. But it was all good, we had the entire lounge to ourselves, several tables and chairs, couches, a baby grand piano, lots of windows (except most of them had annoying metal design work on them creating crappy shadows), and the crazy burgundy wall. Oh, and they were playing some decent tunes over the speakers too. So we tried a bunch of different shots over the course of 2-3 hours? Only had a couple people wander by and peek in, then just went to sit elsewhere. Staff didn't care at all either, which is a good thing since I was moving most of the furniture around :)
Overall I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. Some decent shots and some NOT so decent ones..yikes!! While reviewing the pics, I also noticed some things I didn't do which would've made a lot of shots better, so I'll try to pay more attention to those next time.
Here's the crazy burgundy wall. Actually it turned out to be a decent looking backdrop! I guess the old moral still holds true...Never judge a book by it's cover.
ps. you might be wondering why the hell she's wearing a corset. it's not by choice. she wanted a "clean" headshot from the collarbones upwards so for her final images, i'd have to crop the images much tighter to show just to the tops of her shoulders.
I sent her an email with a link to my flickr site and I guess she liked my pics enough to let me take her pics...or maybe it was just the fact that I told her I wouldn't charge her...hmmm...ya, probably the freebie.
Anyways, we met up downtown and shot a bunch of pics inside the lounge at the Embassy Theatre. There's nobody in the theatre on a Saturday afternoon. Not sure if the movies don't start til later in the afternoon, or if everyone just has better things to do, especially when the weather is as good as it was today. But it was all good, we had the entire lounge to ourselves, several tables and chairs, couches, a baby grand piano, lots of windows (except most of them had annoying metal design work on them creating crappy shadows), and the crazy burgundy wall. Oh, and they were playing some decent tunes over the speakers too. So we tried a bunch of different shots over the course of 2-3 hours? Only had a couple people wander by and peek in, then just went to sit elsewhere. Staff didn't care at all either, which is a good thing since I was moving most of the furniture around :)
Overall I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. Some decent shots and some NOT so decent ones..yikes!! While reviewing the pics, I also noticed some things I didn't do which would've made a lot of shots better, so I'll try to pay more attention to those next time.
Here's the crazy burgundy wall. Actually it turned out to be a decent looking backdrop! I guess the old moral still holds true...Never judge a book by it's cover.
ps. you might be wondering why the hell she's wearing a corset. it's not by choice. she wanted a "clean" headshot from the collarbones upwards so for her final images, i'd have to crop the images much tighter to show just to the tops of her shoulders.
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