Fashion Shoot 4 - Women's Winter + Cosmetics

Will choose 2 from these, pic 1 is a definite, not sure which the other one will be yet.

Fashion Shoot 3 - Women's Evening + Oroton Bag

Technical Details (For full body shots)

Ratio: 1:2

Main: f/8

Fill (shaded): f/5.6

Exposure: f/8 @ 125th

ISO: 100

Background: f/16; Zone 7

Having trouble picking which one to print. Any suggestions?:)

Fashion Shoot 2 - Menswear

Fashion Shoot 1 - Womens 'High' Fashion

Technical Details:

Ratio: 1:2

Main: f/8

Fill (shaded): f/5.6

Exposure: f/8 @ 180th

ISO: 100

Background: f/32.9; Zone 10

Happy with this shoot, I achieved the exact look/lighting I was aiming for:) Will need to do some retouching for the finals. My favourites are the first three.

Car Workshop

Interior

Looking at these pics, the reflectors weren't enough to light the bottom of the interior. Next time a small softbox or something should be pointed at the bottom where there is hardly any detail. How important is it to keep all the details in the shadows? (i.e. where the pedals are). I quite like the contrast and range of tones in these shots - I tried lightening these areas (using fill light in LR- and I know it's better to expose correctly in the shooting stage) but the image looked flatter overall, because there were minimal real black areas. I guess next time I will light all areas properly and then compare:) The other group set up this lighting, I just moved stuff around and adjusted the things i thought need to be adjusted, so I won't take credit for the beautiful lighting on the interior:)

Exterior

I think this lighting was much easier than the interior lighting. Cyclorama was quite restrictive in terms of compositions. These are edited very quickly - that's why none of the backgrounds are completely white. But in case people don't know how to deep etch at the end of this I have included what Julian wrote to me about how to do it, how he does it.