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[OC] Venus in Blue 3 [CW: artistic nudity with body paint] (lemmy.helios42.de)

submitted 3 months ago by dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de to c/photography@lemmy.world

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This is part of a series that I shot in 2020 and now I’ll finally have the chance to show them in an exhibition on Berlin later this year.

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[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Camera: Canon EOS 6D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.4
ISO: 100
Shutter speed: 1/80s
Aperture: f/4.5

Lighting is mainly a soft box on either side, both slightly above head height and set back a bit to create the shadow in the middle of the face. The rest is quite a bit of fiddling around with the RAW. For comparison, here's what it looked like straight out of the camera:

[–] Mighty@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thanks! I am quite surprised you used 4.5 and not the 1.4 your lense could do. Is there too much bokeh on 1.4?

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, it fully depends on the effect you’re after. In this case there was no background to blur and I wanted her body fully in focus. The flashes are by far powerful enough to work with f/4.5 which makes focusing a lot easier. For other shots I did use the f/1.4.

[–] Mighty@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Thank you so much for explaining:)