What are some tips for Solo Must Have Single breast in profile?

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What are some tips for Solo Must Have Single breast in profile?

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Must Haves are a required element of every Solo shoot. More details on what these are along with an overview on how to capture them can be found in the Must-Haves in-brief SDLP. Must Haves are assessed part of every Solo shoot and impacts the SP’s Level.

Each of the Must Haves have their own difficulties to perfect, but Single breast in profile is tricky.

What is “profile”?

The word “profile” has several different meanings which can cause confusion. in this context, we mean silhouette – a profile is the outline of a form. This Must Have needs to illustrate the outline form of a model’s single breast, showing how pert and firm (or otherwise) it is, with no other distractions.

ABOVE:  An example of a profile of a man done in silhouette (popular in the 1700’s). The view is exactly side-on, just how  the breast of the model must be captured for this Must Have. Of course, SP’s do not make it a silhouette (where all detail is blacked out apart from the profile), abbywinters.com lighting is done to show texture and form!

General

For this Must-Have, positioning the camera to the side of the breast is not enough – SPs also needs to line up the lowest part of the breast, so that there is one straight line from that lowest point down and onto the tummy. In addition SPs ensure that exactly half of the model’s nipple is visible. 

Framing checklist

  • Only half of nipple is visible
  • One unbroken line – her chest line does not come from mid way through her breast, it is lined up from the point where her breast is attached to her body

Correct example of Single breast in profile Must-Have

ABOVE: Single breast in profile Must Have of Sabrina V, shot perfectly.

Note how the frame includes the model’s chest, breast, and tummy in a profile, without seeing any of her “front”.

  • Exactly half of the nipple is visible
  • An unbroken  line can be drawn from the nipple to the tummy. (Observe the red line)

The breast is captured in a perfect profile.

Incorrect Example of Single breast in profile Must-Have

ABOVE: Single breast in profile Must have of Jill. Incorrect.

The breast is shown from the side, but the camera is not far enough around, this is not a true profile.

  • More than half of the nipple is visible (look at the top of the areola)
  • There is not an unbroken line from the bottom of the breast down to the chest.
    • The lowest part of the breast (the part that joins the breast to her body) is ‘growing’ out of the middle of her side, there is not one unbroken line.
    • The red line is T shape, instead of an unbroken line

The breast is not in a perfect profile.

How to capture Single breast in profile

Positioning the model and camera ready to capture the Must Have

Step one: Establish where the lowest part of the breast is.

ABOVE: Identify the lowest point of the breast. This is the point the model’s chest needs to be lined up with.

Step two: Select the frame. Starting with a frame of the side of breast in close up (similar to the frame above), walk slowly with the camera around towards her back. The model stands still. Observe the previously established lowest point of the breast, and stop when that unbroken line forms a smooth curve down the models chest.

ABOVE: This image does not show the breast in perfect profile. To get a perfect profile, the camera often needs to move beyond what feels like the half-way point.

Step three: Capture the frame, check the results. First the Must Have requirements (how much of the nipple is visible, is there one unbroken line from breast to body, not a “T”?), and check technical aspects – is the tip of the nipple in focus? Is the DoF appropriate? Is the lighting perfect showing texture and form? Does the exposure avoid blowout and dark shadows? Checking accuracy before moving on enables SPs to make corrections.

ABOVE: The SP has now successfully lined everything up for the single breast in profile Must Have (good).

What if the model has sagging breasts?

If a model has breasts that continue to touch her body, it is not possible to show the point where the breast ‘grows’ out from the models body. Instead, the model’s chest is lined up with the point where the model’s breast stops touching her body.

Correct examples of saggy breasts Single breast in profile

Observe the smooth line from breast to chest – no “T”.

Incorrect examples of saggy breasts Single breast in profile

ABOVE: The line of her chest should be where the green arrow is, not the red arrow (the lowest point of her breast) and not where the SP put the chest line for the image, which is the mid-point of the breast.
ABOVE: The dark shadow the direct lighting has created (bad) helps to highlight why the attempted Must Have is incorrect. The shadow is cast where the breast is hovering above the model’s chest. For saggy breasts the model’s tummy line needs to be lined up with the part of the breast that first stops touching her tummy. The SP needed to move at least two large steps further around the model to line everything up correctly.