Edmayers Goddess
Added 2024-10-27 15:00:03 +0000 UTCGoblin Goddesss posing near Edmayers Secret in Arizona.
This was a less-than-ideal situation:
I shot In the cold shade, the sun on its way down, light reflecting off the red rock onto the model just enough to create a little definition and shadows.
Not to mention the grueling winds the models had to endure and the time pressure, as we needed to get off the mountain taking a different and unknown route than the way we came up before darkness set in.
I’ve been circling these images a few times before editing them:
I love the emotion and expression, but the raw files, quite frankly, are piss poor quality-wise.
The raw quality of my files is generally much better than this.
When you look at the histogram, you can see the problem: there are two peaks: one is the sky and ground, and the left one is the rest of the image.
The model is probably 3 F-stops underexposed, but had I exposed it lighter, it would have blown out the sky and created flare.
Given the circumstances, I couldn’t have done much differently (we were out of time, so finding an alternative location with better lighting was impossible).
There is no morale other than saying sometimes it’s great to know your way around Photoshop.
