It’s too bad she won’t live, but then again who does?

The painterly depiction above could serve as 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 the ineffable attraction of cyberpunk decadence, with sensible use of color, fashion, make-up, light, and negative space.

For the technically curious, the full lighting setup consisted of 4 Godox speedlights mounted on a beauty dish as key light placed above the subject’s head and tilted 45 degrees down, two parabolic modifiers for the colored rim lights plus one extra umbrella to fill from close to floor level. 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 via a USB-C cable, which greatly helped simplify the capture and review process.

In regards to the postproduction, the enviroment is full CGI, created and rendered in-house and then composited along with the raw plates using industry standard compositing and image editing tools. Trully a blend of the timless art of capturing photons on a camera obscura, along with really the latest, state of the art digital techniques.