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It seems a lot of celebrities know of Rebecca Taylor after Sarah Jessica Parker fell in love with the New Zealand designer. Below is her Spring 2010 collection from her show in New York City. Marisa Miller is in the last two photos and is most noted as being a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. I’m usually not a celeb chaser, but she was really nice and her husband, Griffin Guess, took a great in focus shot of us. I normally don’t smile like that…lol
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As the saying goes, you walk a mile step by step. I’ve always wanted to play the piano, but haven’t had the patients to play daily to get better. Maybe, if I started ten years ago I would know how to play chopsticks by now. The same goes for Photoshop. It’s a pretty daunting program, but if you don’t start sometime, you aren’t going to wake up one day and magically be a digital artist wizard.
With that in mind, I stayed home Friday night and researched a few things that drive me nuts in Photoshop. That is basically how to cut an object out within an image and paste it onto another image. People call this photo manipulation or at least, that’s what I call it. So, thanks to a kind soul on YouTube, I was able to learn the wonders of the background-eraser tool. For some reason, I turned the photo black & white on Friday. That is the second photo listed. Saturday, inbetween watching college football, I did a color version. All in all, I probably spent about eight hours trying to figure things out, but now I have a new skill and hopefully I will improve over time.
The girl in the dress is my friend Amaris and we took some photos inside a wedding boutique in Chinatown called Ivy Bridal on 117th N 10th St in Philadelphia. The has a hand painted muslin, but it was of some pink stairs. So, I turned it backwards and shot on the plain gray side. I also purposely shot the image about a full stop darker knowing I was going to try and cut the image out. I really loved the dress and I think it was only $600 in the store. The images of the grass and bird are from sxc.hu and I applied my custom coloring to the photo. I think that’s about it. Enjoy.
First off, congrats to the Phillies for pushing a Game 6 of the World Series!
Below are the photographs from the Christian Siriano show at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week at the Bryant Park Tents in New York City. It seems just like yesterday that he was on Project Runway and then last season, Fall 2009 collection, he was showing at The Salon. The Salon is the smallest of three tents at Bryant Park. Fast forward six months latest and business and investors must be good because Christian was showing at The Promonade which is a venue two and a half to three times bigger(I’m guessing here) than The Salon.
I was front and center for this show and Christian chose to have a single model line on a very very wide gray-blue runway. I would estimated they removed four rows of seats for the extra wide runway. It looked like the ocean as you can see from his blues and wave inspired collection. It reminded me of Leanne Marshall’s “wave inspired” collection from Season Five of Project Runway. Anyways, Enjoy the photos. For those that want to be a runway fashion photographer, all images were shot with a Canon 5D Mark II, 300L 2.8 IS at ISO 400, 1/320, f 4 and Kelvin was adjusted manually to maybe 3200? The lighting was PERFECT. All I did to these photos was +6 contrast + 6 Saturation and 20% unsharp mask in Photoshop. I would say about 75% of the shows I am shooting at ISO 800-1000, but ISO 400 makes me happy =]]
The previous post was backstage photos where the models were getting their hair, make-up, and outfits situated. Here are the presentation photos from the Betsey Johnson Spring 2010 fashion show presentation at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. The models were up on a stage about three feet high. So, most of these images were pre-focused and held in the air with my monopod. Since the models would get bored with the 10-second timer, I pressed the shutter, counted a few seconds and stuck it up in the air. Kinda funky, but it worked out nicely. All images with a Canon 5D Mark II, 16-35mm, and a 580EX II flash. I used the in-camera timer, but next time I will have my ebay wireless shutter remotes ready. Enjoy!
