So my good friend Karima recently asked me to take some photos of her, and after twisting my arm (literally) and bribing me with food I was right on board!. She runs a great cooking blog called I Heart Big Flavour! This is where she does crazy awesome things with food and even posts lots of vegetarian recipes (she gets an extra gold star for that one). So a couple of weeks ago we spent the better part of a particularly rainy Saturday shooting in her rather, uhhh... cozy kitchen. The idea was to achieve a kind of classic LIFE magazine feel with just a little (a lot) more attitude. The best part was she cooked the whole time! I left well fed and with several rolls of kick-ass material. I shot half the day with Provia 100 and the other half with Reala 100 and I couldn't believe the difference between my positive and negative film in terms of tonality and skin colour. We also played around with lots of diferrent lighing tricks and I leaned heavily on my cameras super fast sync speed to achieve the narrow depth of field in the photo above. I even got to throw open my scrim, only instead of shooting through it, we used some black fabrick and created a dividing wall to separate the light sources. All and all it was a lot of fun, I taught myself a few new tricks, and I think the photos turned out rad. Cheers Kari!
No comments:
Post a Comment