Playing the Bass, revisited

On monday evening after the photo shoot with Tom Beek I copied all the photo's to my MacBook Pro and two external harddrives. So there was much time to sort and process files, but the closeup shot of Udo Pannekeet playing the bass caught my eye and I did a quick crop of the black and white jpeg that came out of the FUJIFILM X-Pro1 (I shot everything on fine jpeg + RAW, Black and White preset with Red filter). So I posted that photo on the blog. But a day later I wasn't really satisfied with the result so I revisited the photo. Now I started with the RAW file. Did the same crop, opened it in Photoshop CS6 to remove the headphone cable and continued in Lightroom. I removed some noise, did some exposure adjustments and applied the VSCO Film pack preset Kodak Tri-X 400-. Also scaled the grain down to 20.

It resembles the great Fuji jpeg look but I like this a little better, and the photo benefits of the cable removal I think.

Studio Session

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A few weeks ago I bought a Yongnuo speedlite and a Cactus 6 wireless trigger set to use together with the FUJIFILM X-Pro1. I already had a lightstand and a lastolight Ezybox. As a second light source I used a gold colored reflector. And the final ingredient of course is a model, but luckily Marit volunteered to pose. She made up all the poses, she wanted to sit down in a chair, she wanted to read, etc. But we had a lot of fun and I got to practice with different lighting setups and adjusting the manual settings of the speedlight.

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[caption id="attachment_531" align="alignnone" width="832"] FUJIFILM X-Pro1 + Fujinon XF 35mm F1.4 R + Yongnuo speedlight[/caption]

No actual animals were hurt during the shooting of this photo....trust me, she loves Tuffy till dead...eeeh ;-)

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[caption id="attachment_532" align="alignnone" width="1040"] FUJIFILM X-Pro1 + Fujinon XF 35mm F1.4 R + Yongnuo speedlight

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Introspection

Playing with the new camera, the FUJIFILM X-Pro1, and depth of field; I felt it was time for a new avatar for twitter and Google+ . So I took this shot in the bathroom mirror and did some postprocessing in Lightroom with the VSCO Film presets. And this was the final result that for the time being is how people see me on the social nets.