In My Retro Studio: Hollywood Glamour Lighting
Long an admirer of George Hurrell and the other great Hollywood portrait and glamour photographers of the 1930s and '40s, I've devised techniques to recreate something of that look using modern strobes and digital cameras instead of the tungsten lights and large format view cameras of those days.
Wednesday I shot model Erin St. Clair all day in series of different setups for a real estate ad -- and one of the setups I did was in my retro Hollywood beauty style. Here's my favorite image from that part of the shooting:
Of course the original digital capture was in full color, but I made it black and white in post-processing, then added light touches of color toning to parts of the image, plus some selective diffusion.
And here's a color image from the same session with Erin radiating vibrations of Jane Russell, Marilyn, and Angelina Jolie, all at once.
Hair and makeup by Yajaira Bogari.
Oh, and here's another image I made of Erin with more contemporary lighting:
Wednesday I shot model Erin St. Clair all day in series of different setups for a real estate ad -- and one of the setups I did was in my retro Hollywood beauty style. Here's my favorite image from that part of the shooting:
Of course the original digital capture was in full color, but I made it black and white in post-processing, then added light touches of color toning to parts of the image, plus some selective diffusion.
And here's a color image from the same session with Erin radiating vibrations of Jane Russell, Marilyn, and Angelina Jolie, all at once.
Hair and makeup by Yajaira Bogari.
Oh, and here's another image I made of Erin with more contemporary lighting:
Labels: advertising photography, Bill Wisser, George Hurrell, Hollywood glamour, Lighting, portrait, retro
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