Concepts with Krystal
Been a while since I've taken any portraits. Even longer since they've been of people that I know. This is Krystal. She's the person I play Dungeon Siege 2 with. We have sessions every Tuesday night and once we finish Dungeon Siege 2, we'll move onto other games.
Krystal is an illustrator and designer, and generally all around awesome human. She designed my revised logo for my photography business, and the fun thing about her is that even though she lives in my city, I would have never met her had it not been for the Steem blockchain and her uncle who told her to post things on there.
Unfortunately, she's lost her keys - but she's often busy making things in the real world for real people and getting real progress.
I drove to her house to take these photos so she'd have something on her website.
I lit these with a Godox Ad200 above and behind the camera, with a beauty dish, and another Godox AD200 on the dining room table with a dome modifier to help fill in the shadows.
I'm really happy with how the backdrop turned out. That was a fold out backdrop, velcroed onto a Venetian blind rod.
We did two images, and I was in and out in about an hour and a half or so, even if we spent a lot of time babbling about irrelevant things along the way.
Here is the other image:
I think I missed focus on this image, but for the purposes of an avatar / low res profile image, she's happy, and I'm happy. We live in a blurry world where our eyes don't work, or we can't envision our final result, that's exactly the reason why people like me capture people like Krystal in the way I do.
I'm pretty proud of the fact that I managed to get polarised light out of my flashes to prevent the requirement to use a polarising filter on my lens, and a void any reflection of light flashes in her glasses.
The camera had a bit of trouble focusing through the glasses on the eye, but in reality, I should have been less lazy and used single point auto focus instead eye-auto auto focus. it wasn't like we were walking down cat walks.
It was a purely fabricated scenario.
In other news, I freakin' love the light the AD200 pumps out. Its gorgeous.
Shot on my Nikon Z5 with the Nikon Z 85mm f / 1.8
I hope that I will be able to capture more portraits of people in the future!
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You look so beautiful in this video, my friend
Make sure you have a wonderful day
Hey, thank you. This is my friend Krystal. It isn't me. It also isn't a video. Thanks for your comment have a lovely day.
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Krystal is beautiful! Cool jacket and really complementing her eyes make up. Truly lovely! And what you've said about reflection in her glasses - that's came out great, I know it is not easy thing to do. That's why actors in films are wearing just frames without lenses sometimes, right?
Maybe you missed the focus, because you were shooting picture of the soul, not the person? Hmm?
And now - what is extremely important, and what wasn't mention in your article - it is The Dragon! I want to know all about Dragon!
It is a hand puppet that she made herself. Krystal's mother is a costume maker and dress maker, a proper, honest to goodness seamstress, so Krystal picked up some of her skills, I imagine.
I am pretty sure its just a glove, with a dragon and stuffing and its all sewn together. Krystal's my Dungeon Siege 2 buddy, so there's somewhere you can put a voice to the face, too.
Its amazing how I interact with other humans outside of HIVE.
Wow! Such impressive skills! Looks really great, I would love to see it up close:) Dragon gloves sounds just amazing:)
What you meant by this? Are you impressed with your social skills? Or are you surprise by them?
I think she did a whole bunch of close up photos of them. She used to have an account on Steem before it became hive, but she has since lost the password / keys for the account, sadly.
Well, tomorrow evening, I'll be seeing an old friend who is also on hive; and we may be meeting a different Hive member we've not seen in reality there too.
I get overwhelming exhaustion from being in the presence with other people. A little bit like Einstein said; put your hand on a hot stove and it will feel like an eternity, but spend the day with a beautiful woman and time will pass very quickly (I'm paraphrasing)
Other humans are hot stoves. I'm an introvert with opinions that just spill outward beyond my control. Hive lets me do that in a controlled manner, allowing my output to be limited by the pace at which my hands can go.
Yeah, see that in your article, so sorry about this;/
I get that completely :D I am a bit mischievous and cynical in my manner, which makes networking quite difficult.
But the truth is - I'm just waiting for someone to take up the challenge:) I don't understand people who are easily offended or who get carried away with their honour for any reason. I think it shows weakness of character.
So you are practising your social skills:) That's good:)
The problem with most people is you touch the stove, hoping for it to be warm, but it is just cold and dead on the inside. Me, I'm dead on the inside too, but the stove is glowing white like a magnesium ingot, burning
That is a very poetic way of saying that you have no soul. I very much like that.
I am very much in favor of cold. I will dig that out of you :D maybe dead, but certainly, not empty!
Empty is just another word for cavernous.
So you are suggesting there is a danger there?
No, just infinite depth.
Good.
Plenty to explore then.