Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
My studio is in my second floor hallway "Den"
There's a full size backdrop with Manfrotto stands holding hair lights, lights for the b.g. paper and the paper.
The ceiling height at 8 ft is fine for most models, but some are just too tall to get the paper behind their heads with sufficient clearance.
We all look at the temperature of the light, exposure and that is routine, I want to address the potential added benefit of correcting for orthogonality of the subject to the camera focus plane.
Below we see a jpg picture out of the camera, with two obvious faults
1. The paper doesn't cover sufficient background
2. The white stand holding the vase with flowers is twisted in a number of planes!
I discovered that correcting this disorder in Adobe Camera RAW seems to make the folk look more real. The second picture is from Adobe Camera RAW processing of the RAW file at default setting with no color balance, white or black point alterations, just default processing, making the white stand orthogonal and creating sufficient black bg to complete a 4x5 frame.
Asher Kelman: Joel & Brittany #1
Fuji GFX 50S 32-64 MM Fujinon Lens
39.6 mm focal length, (31mm in equivalent 35 mm camera systems)
1/160 sec, f/10, ISO 200
jpg file out of camera, resized only
Asher Kelman: Joel & Brittany # 1 Orthogonality corrected in ACR
Fuji GFX 50S 32-64 MM Fujinon Lens
39.6 mm focal length, (31mm in equivalent 35 mm camera systems)
1/160 sec, f/10, ISO 200
ACR CC 2018 for just orthogonality
There's a full size backdrop with Manfrotto stands holding hair lights, lights for the b.g. paper and the paper.
The ceiling height at 8 ft is fine for most models, but some are just too tall to get the paper behind their heads with sufficient clearance.
We all look at the temperature of the light, exposure and that is routine, I want to address the potential added benefit of correcting for orthogonality of the subject to the camera focus plane.
Below we see a jpg picture out of the camera, with two obvious faults
1. The paper doesn't cover sufficient background
2. The white stand holding the vase with flowers is twisted in a number of planes!
I discovered that correcting this disorder in Adobe Camera RAW seems to make the folk look more real. The second picture is from Adobe Camera RAW processing of the RAW file at default setting with no color balance, white or black point alterations, just default processing, making the white stand orthogonal and creating sufficient black bg to complete a 4x5 frame.
Asher Kelman: Joel & Brittany #1
Fuji GFX 50S 32-64 MM Fujinon Lens
39.6 mm focal length, (31mm in equivalent 35 mm camera systems)
1/160 sec, f/10, ISO 200
jpg file out of camera, resized only
Asher Kelman: Joel & Brittany # 1 Orthogonality corrected in ACR
Fuji GFX 50S 32-64 MM Fujinon Lens
39.6 mm focal length, (31mm in equivalent 35 mm camera systems)
1/160 sec, f/10, ISO 200
ACR CC 2018 for just orthogonality
