A Short Tale of A Face and Different Stories

I love music and do a lot that has to do with music and music production. From playing instruments to arrangements of pieces. It has been a part of me and had also formed an integral part of my outlook in life.

Spoilers - today is my birthday!😜

I decided to do create something that reflects a story of what I do as musician.
It was in the early hours of the day and I could hardly find a good location for a picture in my small apartment.

I decide to use as a backdrop my padded studio walls and create something that looks somewhat moody but with some ray of emotion (whatever that means😅).

I did not have photography lights. I had a very harsh key light I use for videos but I softened it with a diffuser to have acceptable results, then used one of my studio led lights as a fill, and then another blue light in the distance as a kind of hair light of some sort.

So I decided to do a collage of 3 pictures, with 2 showing the family of instruments I play predominantly (woodwind and strings), and then the last being just me - it's my birthday😏

They were shot on a Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4 and a Meike 35mm F/1.7 prime lens.

And here they are:

(F/1.7, SS 1/200s, ISO 400, with Lightroom preset)

(F/1.7, SS 1/200s, ISO 400, nil Lightroom presets)

(F/1.7, SS 1/200s, ISO 400, with Lightroom preset)

And then the collage:

I hope you like them!