Reminiscent of Richard Avedon

[wlotus]

In 1955, Richard Avedon photographed singer Marion Anderson. I learned about Avedon during Studio & Lighting, and I immediately liked his high-contrast, black & white photos done against a plain, white background.

Last night T was grooving to the music mix on WBLS during our photo shoot, and I captured this image of her. I like it, because it captures a bit of her playful side, and because it reminds me of a Richard Avedon photograph.



Taken with a Canon 5D against a white, seamless background, using an off-camera flash and shoot-through umbrella. Post-processing done in Lightroom 2.

Comments

[tracied.livejournal.com]

you can clone it out in photoshop. Use a small brush set to about 20% opacity at first and go slow so you don't get any of the picture edge cloned out, then after you get the bits close to her face, you can increase the brush size a bit and increase the opacity. If you are worried, make a layer that way you can delete the layer. So make a layer of the background. :D

[rockbirthedme.livejournal.com]

I'd back this suggestions. I think you want the background to fade completely out of existence, and the shadow breaks that up a bit.

Having said which, I think this is a lovely photo of T. She's a remarkably elegant woman, and seeing such an elegant person put some soul into it is pretty powerful.

I hadn't seen that Avedon photo before. You know what I like best about it? It looks as though it's the power of her musical voice that is blowing her hair.

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

I'm experimenting with cloning out the shadow, and I am getting circles in that area of the image, even when I overlap the cloned areas. Is this simply a matter of trial and error, or is there something I am missing?

[tracied.livejournal.com]

probably have too hard of a brush. Or, you are using the cloning stamp vs the clone tool.