On Tuesday night I photographed an Ed Hardy swimwear fashion show at Karma Lounge in Oshawa, Ontario. Using the Nikon D700, I shot almost everything at ISO 6400 and f/1.4 due to the very low lighting in the club.
I also experimented with the Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8 DX lens on the D700, which is a full-frame (FX) body:
There’s never a shortage of interesting people to shoot at a club:
And that brings us to the swimwear models. You might be wondering, “Ryan, why did you make all these photos blue?” Answer after these:
One major issue with club photography is the very, very strange patterns, colours, and colour temperatures of lights that are used. This is one of the major reasons I shoot raw-format photos (instead of JPEG) — so that I have full control over white balance after the photos are taken. White balancing via the auto function of the camera, or trying to do it manually at the club is an exercise in frustration. Check out the example below of Ashley.
The photo on the left is what the camera decided the correct white balance should be in automatic mode (4450 degrees kelvin). The photo on the right is after correcting the white balance in Lightroom to the maximum allowed setting of 50,000 degrees kelvin (and also setting the tint to negative 150 to combat some of the pink hue). So now instead of looking purple, Ashley looks closer to a regular human again. The problem, if there is one, is that both versions look kinda cool. So rather than trying to pick one, I compromised and just tossed out all the colour and made the selenium toned versions you see above.
Absolutely love 1 and 6
I Have to say Congradulations to the both of us for that night. The Modeling was art & you were there to capture it. Your are so incredibly intelligent to colour and detail as made in your blog about the ie. contrast etc. in the picture. Thank you for a great shoot & I hope I can do business with you in the future,
*☆*♫ *♥* ♫ *★*αshley ĶαTiΣ Ŀ Ўηη *★* ♫*♥*♫ *☆*
unfortunately I did not attend this show but was luck enough to see the new collection in Miami at the Mercedes Benz Fasion week. The suits were amazing and so were the models. The images you have above in the article look great and looks like it was a hot Time!