I was recently indirectly challenged by my girlfriend to portray some of my close friends in photos. This was the consequence of being incapable of describing them in words, since their personalities are so wild and unique. I decided to start this little mini project with my friend Praveen. Today, as kind of a mental preparation for the shoot, we scouted some ideal locations in Holmdel Park. Conceptually, we decided on two serious and two funny photos; two in traditional Indian garb, and the others true to Praveen psychotic, metrosexual flair. To make the day more interesting, Praveen will be taking photos of me also. I haven't yet decided on what kind of photos I want, but i'll update here when i've decided. We will probably use two light sources: the sunset as the backlight, and a strobe in a softbox as the main light. These are some of the locations we've decided on. I'm a sucker for reflections in lakes. Very careful attention was paid to the histogram in order to get the lake to come out properly exposed (in my opinion).
Oh and in case people were wondering how I upload the raws, this is my workflow:
I open the files on Lightroom 3, then change the Camera Calibration setting from Adobe Standard to Camera Standard. Then I resize my photos to 5% of the original (this is why the photos aren't really that sharp in full size) in order to save space on my gmail account, otherwise at 8 mb a pop, this blog wouldn't last many more posts :P
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