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Cyber Baroque Flair
"bizarre, virtual reality style"
baroque
“irregular, bizarre or unequal.”
cyber
relating to or characteristic of the culture of computers, information technology, and virtual reality.
flair
Distinctive elegance or style.
A dream you can’t apprehend just a second after opening your eyes…
A blond young woman, her absent blue eyes. Electromagnetic fields rise impenetrable walls around her silk-skinned shoulders. Golden eruptions flare from a dazzling vortex of light. A dream you can’t apprehend just a second after opening your eyes. Nostalgic feelings for that which never happened.The true spiral of all centrifugal forces leading towards a sliver of lust and counter space. A black hole with red lips in the middle of the dining room…
a sliver of lust and counter space…
The painterly depiction above could serve as the aesthetic basis for this creative portrait-photography project. Fully executed at our Galacpic Studio in southwest Montreal, the series comprises a number of instants that seek to convey a sense of baroque luxury with a touch of digital magic, with sensible use of color, fashion, make-up, light, and negative space.
For the technically curious, the full lighting setup consisted of 3 speedlights mounted on a beauty dish as key light, an umbrella to fill from close to floor level, and a small softbox to color tint the shadows left by the key light. The camera body used was a Fujifilm X-T3, and the Fujinon 90mm F2 was the lens of choice for most of the pictures. The whole shoot was done tethered to Capture 1, which greatly helped simplify the capture and review process.
In regards to the postproduction, the environment is full CGI, created and rendered in-house and then composited along with the raw plates using industry-standard compositing and image editing tools. Truly a blend of the timeless art of capturing photons on a camera obscura, along with really the latest, state-of-the-art digital techniques.
Credits
Photography & Postproduction: Boris Martinez | Galacpic
Make-up Artist/Hair styling: Manuela Balk | Galacpic
Model: Marianne Cecile Cole | @mariannececilia.cole
Design Assistants: Manuela Balk | Galacpic
Production Assistant: Manuela Balk | Galacpic
