Black and White Boudoir Photo

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This black and white boudoir photo of Hazel was taken in the studio using two studio flash heads. The brief was to take some soft, feminine photographs for her portfolio (she is starting a modelling career but as she has a striking, angular face most of her shots have quite a hard look to them.

The set was extremely simple - just a bed and a mirror, though in the end I abandoned the mirror for this type of classic shot.

Technical Information

Camera: Canon EOS 7D DSLR

Lens: EF28-70f2.8L at 70mm

Exposure: f10, 1/250, ISO100

Lighting

I wanted a high-key, back-lit look to this shot (originally I wanted to use window light, but the weather turned really bad). I switched to studio lights with a softbox in front of the model and a more powerful direct light behind/right.

Post Processing

Though it only took a few minutes to do, this photo has been through quite a few post processing steps:

Conversion to black and white (by simple desaturation in Aperture 3)
Contrast increase using an S-curve Curves adjustment - again in Aperture 3.
Aperture3 Skin Smoothing filter applied everywhere (Radius 10.0, Detail 0.75, Intensity 0.5)
Eyes brightened a small amount using Aperture 3 Dodge Quick Brush.
I also used a big soft Dodge Quick Brush to accentuate the highlight on the breasts.

For more information on the technical details see here: lighting, exposure, iso.

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