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January 3, 2009
On the Set with Archimedes
photo © Kat Caverly 2009
A month in the making, the set of my latest portrait is a tribute to my husband and partner, Thomas Hudson Reeve. Besides bringing Archimedes to life, Tom built the set and did the special effects, and was my lighting assistant.
Using Barbarino's print as our inspiration, our goal was to capture the deep thought of the great Archimedes, as well as the dramatic lighting and feeling of space and place.
Starting with an overall super-soft fill of only f4 (8 foot Octodome behind me), we built the lighting. The main light is a Speedotron beauty dish with a 20 degree honeycomb grid set to f16. The background light is flagged to throw a window shape, f22. Finally we bounced a softened 102 head off a show card as a fill for the foreground, f8. Exposure was set at f18 at 1/15th of a second (for the fire in the torche).
I am using a Nikon D700, white balance set for 5700ºK, post processed in Photoshop CS4.
I did the character styling; wardrobe, make-up and hair. Tom was the decorator and did the shopping for all of the props including a magnificent chair. He has was the prop master and custom built the fire effect for the torche.
The results are very exciting! We make a great team and with all of the skills and experience Tom has with stage craft and photography, I have a team equal to many many professionals all wrapped up into a dynamic duo!
Posted by photocartoonist at January 3, 2009 11:02 PM
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Comments
WOW!
great work! congrat to both of you
Posted by: david at January 4, 2009 3:56 PM