Today’s Post by Blue Moon Boudoir
Free Comic Book Day is an annual promotional effort by the North American comic book industry to attract new readers to independent comic book stores. This means you can walk into any of the 2300+ participating retailers worldwide and pick up a free comic book. Now in its 22nd year, the global event is observed annually on the first Saturday in May Free Comic Book Day began in 2002 and is coordinated by the industry’s single large distributor, Diamond Comic Distributors.
How I made this portrait: Erin was in (more or less) full geek regalia when I made this portrait of her in my home studio in the clothes that she walked into my home wearing. I loved them! The choices of what she’s wearing, I think, shows her true personality. The camera used was the Pentax K-1 Mark II with a Pentax-D FA 28-105mm f/3.5-5.6 ED DC WR lens (at 58mm) that I was testing. The exposure was 1/100 sec at f/10 and ISO 200.
Lighting for the portrait was provided by a blue Paul C. Buff DigiBee DB800 with Plume Ltd Wafer softbox attached and used as the main light. It was placed at camera right. An Alien Bee B800 with 16 x 30-inch Westcott Apollo Strip soft box was located at camera left with another (red) DigiBee with a (no longer available) 48-inch Dynalite Quad Square black/silver umbrella placed in the back far left corner of the studio space. The background was Silverlake Photo Accessories’ Carbonite muslin backdrop that was suspended from my JTL background stands.
Erin’s pose probably violates every rule that “the experts” say you shouldn’t do. The camera angle may be too low—I don’t remember, to tell the truth—but the attitude of the pose says everything about the subject. It shows an intelligent, proud, insouciant and yet downright sexy woman. This is probably one of my least retouched and processed portraits I’ve ever made with just some minor tweaking in Vivenza before light retouching in Portraiture 2 with a soupçon of Glamour Glow from Color Efex added to wrap things up.
