Today’s Post by Joe Farace
I wrote a post called Finding Glamour Models: An Update in which I complained about the current status of modeling websites and the difficulty in finding glamour model these days. But it wasn’t always like that. In February, 2014 through the combination of a recommendation from a photographer friend and the very same modeling website I was complaining about, I met Pamela Simpson. And thus began an six-year collaboration that produced the most fun and one of best working relationships that I’ve had with any model
One of the delights of working with Pam was never knowing what her hair style or even its color would be from shoot-to-shoot. This time it was blue although in the portrait it sometime appears purple in photographs because of the colored gels I was using on the LED lights I was using to during this particular portrait session.
Today’s image is from our fourteenth photo session together that was held on June 20, 2014 and was made using two LED light sources. The main light was a Rotolight Anova, that years later failed and I’m while I’m currently waiting for its repair/replacement, I received a Rotolight NEO 2 LED 3-Light Kit for testing.
How I made this portrait: The Rotolight Anova was placed at camera right and she was photographed against the formerly white wall of my studio walls created a pseudo high key/low key look.
The camera used was Panasonic Lumix GH4 with the versatile Olympus M. Zuiko 45mm f/1.8 lens with an exposure of 1/60 sec at f/4.0 and ISO 800. Image was retouched using my standard techniques and processed using the Glamour Glow filters from Color Efex’s Photoshop-compatible plug-ins.
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