Photo illustration of Queen Maeve

This is Karina, the first of the two mod­els I’ve been work­ing with and the rea­son I went out and bought stu­dio lights. We did a lot of play­ing around with props and poses — I love the golden age qual­ity of this image– sort of a vision of Queen Maeve of Con­naught via 1940s Hollywood.

Shot with one soft­box for light­ing on my usual Canon 350D, 18-55mm lens at 27mm. The matte black back­ground is wide rolls of crepe paper I taped to my book­shelf. I did a lit­tle bit of “paint­ing with light” on this one — above the basic image layer I cre­ated a trans­par­ent layer set on “soft light” and then dodged and burned that layer by paint­ing white, black, and golden yel­low at 8% trans­parency over the photo.

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