Bacon Lettuce Photo

by Joe

This photo is a test shot from my color film class at college. We are doing a color in cinema project and the movie I chose was American Beauty. For this shot I added my own element with the black rose. I shot this in one of the studio bays at the school. it involved my camera being on a studio stand about 8 feet high pointing straight down with a ladder over the models legs so I could reach it. I boomed a large softboxed speedotron strobe over the top on the side at a slight angle and placed a strip light behind the models head. I don’t remember the exact settings of the strobe. As for props… I used 4 red twin size sheets to help fill in the space between the rose petals because I didn’t have as many as the movie. I also used 4 boxes of 500 count rose petals from the wedding section at Hobby Lobby. That means it was supposed to be about 2000 petals but it sure didn’t look like it! I did some minor color adjustments and added a vignette in Camera Raw and then smoothed the skin just a little in photoshop.

What a great idea and execution! What makes this photo is perspective.
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