Thursday, 24 October 2013

Old-style family portrait

F4 | TV 1/80 | ISO 100 


The picture above is of one of the partners in a new Johannesburg venue called Sir James van der Merwe. When the venue opens I'll post a link here but for now suffice it to say that they needed a portrait of the fictitious Sir James' mother. I arranged a stylist for the hair and makeup, and the model brought her own dress and props. The styling took the better part of 2 hours and the shoot about 45 minutes.

I converted the RAW file in Canon Digital Photo Professional and added a bit of contrast before changing it to black & white. I added a vignette and a warming filter to get the final result.