Herione

Herione
Originally uploaded by isker

As i had been saying before, when i shoot i often have a vision but this might change very quickly to something completely different during the postprocessing and editing stage in Photoshop.

Me and Aida just had some time to kill and i really wanted to try out the Quadra with a beautydish and the raster on, to see how the light was acting.
So we moved the sofa, and put up the paper-studiobackgound i bought a couple of months ago. Its a bit broken but it works.

So basiclly it was mostly to try the BD with the raster and practice some lighting also.
I found out that the raster gave very hard shadows but aswell a very dull light, that gave a cosy yet mystiqe feeling.
I tried to lighten and soften up the shadows with my bouncer but i didnt really get that one working.

One thing about the Quadra that i was very irritated about is that i had to press the button to start the LED light all the time.
But this was qucik corrected by changing the settings to 60 secs instead of 30.
It takes more batterypower though but it didnt matter that much in this case.
And still, those damn cables are to short!!!!

Anyhow.
This time i really wanted to make just plain and nice portraits of Aida with some nice lighting.
But always when i sit ifront of photoshop, i just cant get my hands of this dirty and gritty textures that adds a gothic/gore and a darker sense to the pictures.
Im just to fond about the look.
Even if a plain portrait can stand out as it is, i still want to add something more to my pictures.
Its not that i believe in them as they are, but for my own "pleasure" i try to strengthen them by adding elements to the photo, that i hopefully think also strengthen the feeling of it.
So yes, it is all fiction.
Aida does not have that big scar on her back, and she is not addicted to heroine.
But its not a portrait of her.
It is a portrait of somebody that i have created, who feels that way and has that scar.
It is my interpretation of how i think the darkness COULD look like.

All pictures has a story, whether it is authentic or not.

Pakka.

//enikOne