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These two were with the strong light coming at her from the back directly.

Hopefully the picture is less boring with the diffuser.

One of our friends commented afterward that she looked better when trying to be cool instead of smiling. One of the reasons was that her teeth are not very "neat".

I think the comment is fair in general, but there are always exceptions to the rule. In this one, her smile was happy enough to overcome any imperfection she may have.  

We booked the session for one hour only but we were allowed to stay for another 30 min more. By now we were sort of ran out of ideas what to shoot. Then someone handed her this fluffy chair, and it was a nice prop.

Last two photos. At the end, she requested us to send the finishing photos for her portfolio.

When we arrived at the studio, the lights were not yet setup. After the setup, he measured the lights and just told us "ISO100, F7.1, 5000K white balance". My friend told me that the shutter was assumed to be 1/125. All the photos above were taken with this particular setup.

Once at home, I found the exposures were a bit too high, as all the information on the white background were lost. It's OK for this particular set of photo, since the focus is really on the model.

This really brought up the point that in the studio we can have consistent and near perfect light. So the technicalities are good. The problem was really how to make the pictures interesting with a plain background. I took about 250 pictures, nearly all technically correct (right exposure, right focus) but not necessary pleasing to the eyes.

Since the lighting was very good, there was no adjustment to the color, brightness, or contrast, except the one with oo8 adjusting the light. I darken the picture, then "burn" the right half of the photo where the model was, so she stands out in the picture.

With my very sharp lens, quite a bit of her skin imperfection showed us. I have smoothed the skin tone a bit. (Quite a bit actually. For a sample before smoothing the skin, see #81 vs #82 at http://chinman.com/index.php/topic,99.80.html)

This is the close-up of her eyes from the 2nd pic in #7 above.

This picture is 1:1. Meaning not compressed. And each pixel on your screen corresponding to one pixel on the sensor of my Sony A900.

See the pattern on the contact lenses?  

nice pics......Charles will love it......

008 seems to be a professional lighting consultant.....and I see that 大眼仔 too

Quote from: hangchoi on 08 June 2010, 10:39:16
nice pics......Charles will love it......

008 seems to be a professional lighting consultant.....and I see that 大眼仔 too

Calling Charles....

If any of you would like to try, just drop me a note. It's not expensive to arrange a session like this. It would be an interesting experience.

And I just found out the model is professional, not a part-timer.

http://www.fotop.net/ChRiStyD/Album

But pro could also means....  .....nodayjob.