That model opposite the OM System stand

[Ian]

The lighting colours were all over the place so I decided to go for warm tone mono, instead. This was only 1/30th second (my mistake!) so on the original file, when pixel-peeking, there is some motion blur, but after a lot of messing around in Lightroom, Topaz, and Photoshop, this is the result:

[Ian]

And the unadjusted original:

[tmp]

good capture and choice of processing. i definitely prefer your edited version. it looks timeless....like it could have been captured in the 50's.

[Mark2112]

Studio photography was never my bag, I just didn't like the 'formal emptiness' of it, for want of a better phrase. That said, your mono version, for what it is, looks pretty damned good to me.

[Phill D]

That looks great Ian. My mate Jim got a few of her too yesterday.

[LadyG]

I got a few of her but didn't keep them - she had a unicorn for company yesterday and it was like a bad lighting man at a gig, blue, red and green light everywhere!

[Ian]

The lighting for most of the photo op setups was pretty bad, which is I why I went for mono in the end.

[BDennis]

That looks really good.

I took some shots of her with the unicorn but she wasn’t smiling so much then. These shows must be pretty wearing for the models after a few days.

Bill

[ronidog]

Thats why we stopped going to the got/steampunk weekends in Whitby.

[MJ224]

"Older men" is a slightly strong implication....

I am an older man, and just enjoyed photoing the lovely lady from afar..............

[BDennis]

Photographing models is not a genre I'm familiar / comfortable with - to me it feels odd taking photos of people like this (especially women) without engaging them, asking permission or being asked to take photos. They were show models though so I guess it was their job to be there and some great photos are posted here. I watched Gavin Hoey on one of the stands and he had good rapport with the model he was working with and that has also been the case when I've watched his online video posts.

[Walti]

Nice lady, had a little chat with her...

Lighting, well what can one say when a company is trying to sell you lighting and puts that display on? Absolutely shocking!

[MJ224]

Experts say the lighting was poor.

I was unsure about the horse in b/g, but I thought the lighting was OK, from a non-portrait photographer.

Easy enough to change, and being an old man, she was delightful, in the nicest possible way.............

[blackfox]

I remember going there a few years back with a friend who at the time was going through a marital rough patch pre divorce … I had to walk away from him as he spent the whole day perving over the models quite embarrassing at the time ..p.s we are no longer friends

[pdk42]

Back in the day when Damian McGillicuddy was an Olympus Ambassador I went to some of his lighting tutorials. He is a master of studio lighting and it was quite a learning experience. But ultimately, I don't find studio photography all that fulfilling. Good lighting, good camera gear, and an attractive model (of any gender) will deliver a good result, but I'm not sure how much the photographer counts in all that !!

Here he is at work in the old Olympus gallery in London. EM1 with the 12mm f2.



Damian McGillicuddy at work by Paul Kaye, on Flickr