Mimi Graczyk wears a Hyper Haute creation in this test shot for a 2012 Femme Fatale project. This is the third version, an experiment using new tools and techniques.
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Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
Monday, September 21, 2015
Friday, March 29, 2013
Alison Jo Makeup Artistry Video
The final cut just finished, stars Abby Stahlschmidt and Madeleine Heppermann, with makeup by Alison Jo, clothing stylist Omar Samy, photography and video by Ray Meibaum and Preston Page, photo styling by Susan Page and music by Alex Clare.
Editing
I had been using Avid Studio, but it crashes under Windows 8. There is now no mention of Avid Studio on the Avid.com support site, so I scrambled for alternatives. The workflow for this video turned out to:
Technical
Cameras: Nikon D4 and Nikon D800
Lighting: Lowell Tungsten and Broncolor modeling lights
Support: Acratech Video Adapter, Opteka Shoulder Stock, Miller Fluid head.
Editing
I had been using Avid Studio, but it crashes under Windows 8. There is now no mention of Avid Studio on the Avid.com support site, so I scrambled for alternatives. The workflow for this video turned out to:
- Organize, trim and color correct clips in Lightroom 4, then export to a working folder.
- Assemble the music and clips in Photoshop CS6 and exported to a full HD file. This approach is actually effective and straightforward, delivering a fairly polished rough cut.
- End titles added with Cyberlink PowerDirector Ultimate 11. The interface is similar to Avid, but it is stable and much faster.
- Cyberlink uploaded the web optimized video to Vimeo and YouTube.
Technical
Cameras: Nikon D4 and Nikon D800
Lighting: Lowell Tungsten and Broncolor modeling lights
Support: Acratech Video Adapter, Opteka Shoulder Stock, Miller Fluid head.
Monday, January 21, 2013
Mimi With Gold Walther PPK, 2012
It looks like the entire content of this blog was lost I changed the title, so I guess this is reboot for 2013. What better way to start fresh that with an image from the "Femme Fatale" project? Thank you to my collaborators, the marvelous model Mimi Graczyk, hair by Kris Theohar, makeup by Christoper McKinney and photo styling by Susan Page. I hope to pick up the pace on this and other art projects this year.
Workflow
This workflow has become pretty much my standard for fashion and beauty work:
- Capture tethered to a laptop using Nikon Camera Control Pro 2 and ViewNX 2
- At the end of the day, import pictures to a new Lightroom catalog for tagging and sorting
- Process the RAW picks in DxO Optics Pro 8, output as DNG files and import to Lightroom
- From Lightroom, run through basic beauty and fashion retouching in Photoshop CS6
- Apply a standard "look" using a custom recipe in Nik Color Efex Pro 4, which for me usually involves application of tone and contrast filters.
- Finish in Lightroom with a develop preset to complete the look. For this series, I'm using a split tone with a sepia wash and blue shadows.
camera: Nikon D800
lens: AF Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D
exposure: ISO 800 @ f/25 @ 1/80s
lighting: vintage Broncolor beauty dish
Links
Preston Page Studio
PrestonPage.com
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