unmasked
13:32 on Monday, May 12, 2003 • 1 response
Some of you may remember the photographic experiments I did a few months back involving Bondage Barbie and Handcuffs Ken. While that photoshoot was for a print piece, it was a last-minute thing, and I had every intention of replacing the toys with real humans. Barbie didn’t make the cut, though—the male figure with a mask/codpiece fit the plays’ themes much more effectively by itself. Plus, I didn’t have to get both a female and a male almost nekkid for the [real] photoshoot. Anyway, the real photoshoot (which was more than a month ago) went well, although I miss having access to a real photo studio with real strobes (I ended up using those hardware-store steel worklights, my flash, and a few reflectors).
Last week I finished the final piece in that project, which ended up involving another photo shoot (with a real model), and several print pieces (links to pdfs)—the audition poster, the show poster, a conference poster, a billboard, and an 8-page program.
Of particular interest to me is the fact that images shot on my oh-so-consumer CoolPix 5700 held up to an enlargement for a tabloid-size print. The images were upsized and re-sampled in Photoshop with great care (you have to go upwards incrementally, with less unsharp masking each time, if you want the image to hold together), but they held up surprisingly well. They wouldn’t win any photographic print awards, but for the purposes of a poster, they worked rather well, if I do say so myself.
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