Photoshoot: Oxana Fashion (pt-1)
Posted under: Well as it turned out one of my photoshoots was cancelled at very last minute unexpected, which gave me a short window to process some photos and start blogging.
These first ones are from the shoot two days ago with Oxana from Major Model Agency in NYC. Oxana is just building up her portfolio while modelling down here in DC and plans to move up to NYC very shortly. We had shot for the first time during the beauty project with Demetress.
For this shoot, Dana Delaney was fortunately to come aboard at the last minute to do make up and ‘light hair’ (as she calls it, but I think it looks great!).
Here are just a few quick snap from the first outfit look.
(c) Bo Zhang | Bo and Bro
hit the link for a couple more pics and lighting and shoot info.
Oxana came prepared with the exact looks she wanted for her fashion shots. This girl knows what she wants, as she rolled in with the exact outfits and the style she wanted. I was more than happy to oblige, as I wanted to get out of the whole beauty portrait style and get back into fashion.
(c) Bo Zhang | Bo and Bro
For these shots, I used the dark grey background and a single gridded beauty dish high up and a bit farther away from Oxana to light up her body as well.
Dana was great to help out by holding a reflector just to the left of the camera to kick in very subtle fill for Oxana’s hair.
(c) Bo Zhang | Bo and Bro
Not much need to mention it, but Oxana is just amazing to work with as she rocks through the expressions with little direction. Two more looks to come in the coming week.
As for the tethered shooting, I finally got Nikon camera control…which worked well with LR, but it did take about 2-3 second to get each raw photo to the comp and another 10 for LR to realise that it’s in the new folder and import the file.
It is a slow process, but definitely worth it to see the images larger. I was able to get more controlled poses and expressions through this method. More about the details of tethered shooting later on in a separate post.
I taught an off-cam flash class last weekend and used a free program called Camera Control from http://www.diyphotobits.com/.
Worked great tethered to my Nikon d90.
I shot in JPG for the class to speed up the process. But it worked fine shooting w/ NEF as well.
Love your site.. lots of great info..
Would really like to see more of your studio space and some setups.
thanks!
-B
hey bryan,
I had used diy photo bits before as well. It seemed to work alright, although my main gripe with it is that it kept on jumping between my LR window and the diyphotobits window. I’ll definitely try to put more photos of my lighting setup as well. I do want to take photos of all setups, oftentimes I get caught up and forget about it. Thanks for the kind comments.
-bo