You might remember Kelly from such posts as this one in January. That was our second shoot. The photos below are from our first solo session together back in 2014, and I think we did quite well. =)
This was one of those shoots where everything just clicks. Kelly needed no direction, and I managed not to screw up the lights too badly. All of these photos are reworked in 2018, processed from the unmodified raw files, and it’s interesting to see how my tastes and skills have created different images, then and now, from the same starting point.
This one is a bit of an outlier. On the left is the edit from 2014. It’s a sort of lightweight bleach bypass, which results in a high contrast de-saturated tone. I don’t do this very much now, but for a long time I was using it as a bit of a crutch, to make an image with impact when my lighting wasn’t really doing the job. I still like this style, but Kelly looks better in the new version.
It wasn’t until very recently that I started cropping images based on the content. I was always trying to preserve the original aspect ratio (3:2 for most DSLR cameras) but now I use a handful of different ratios, like 8×10, A4 or 1:1 (and isn’t it fun mixing up the notation like that, hehe).
The old version on the left (below) is what most of the gallery looked like in 2014, I dunno why the one above was the only one getting the bleach bypass treatment. But still I think I’ve upped my game tremendously since then, the newer image pleases me greatly.
Kelly’s just gorgeous. ^_^
