Some still to give you an impression...

[johne]

... of what i do
Which is, i suppose nice as a sort of introduction since i am new around here.

Here are some stills i made some recent some very old. The BW portrait was taken with a Scitex Leaf DCB on a Mamiya 6x7, Which was a three shot color DCB but did great one shot B&W. Most other pics are with Canon gear (D60 (NOT THE 60D LOL), 5D, 7D) Of course all were edited but no third party plug-ins were used, just photoshop.

I must confess i "borrowed" a background on 3 of the portrait shots, from someone on Flickr. I do normally shoot my own but since i was experimenting with that look and not using it for commercial purposes, i got some which had a creative commons license.

Anyways, I am in the first place a photographer, but i really like dynamics of moving images.

 

[johne]

and some more pics

 

[Postmaster]

Some great work there Johne.

What technique do you use to make those portraits so "movieposteresque" ?

Frank

 

[johne]

Hey Postmaster/Frank


First of all let me congratulate you for inventing the word "movieposteresque", scrabble fans world wide will thank you for eternity

Anyway as far as the lighting is concerned, the subject is lit from the back with 2 softboxes, creating a sort of light edge around them.
Then as a front light i like to use a setup with a softbox or beautydish on top and a reflector below the face (to soften the hard shadows)

That is the easiest part, matching subject to chosen background is a matter of tweaking and more tweaking until desired effect is achieved.