The set is an example of what can be done with very simple resources, to create a "virtual studio" -- a garage with towels taped over the windows, a large black backdrop (seamless paper would also work well), a single light softened with a reflector, a piece of white poster board to bounce back a little fill light on the far side. The whole shebang took less than an hour... well, maybe just a bit more to fold up the backdrop, but not much.
I downloaded 135 (RAW) images from the set, took a quick pass-through in Apple's simple picture viewer ("Preview"), and sorted down to 55 selects. I took a second pass through those selects in the same way, and created a "second sort" set of 28 images.
Of the 28 in the second sort I "finished" the 18 images presented here.
The exposures were pretty good, but the focus just a bit softer than I wanted -- I reviewed the imagery in Adobe Bridge, did a bit of sharpening there, and took my favorites one at a time into Photoshop CS3. In photoshop some of them got a touch more sharpening, and I cut out the green yoga mat, pasting it on its own layer and pulling out the color for a more monochrome effect to match the clothing.
Where it felt right, I extended the yoga mat into a long stripe instead of just the rectangle. Each image was finished with my web address, and saved as a three-layer PSD file (the subject and black background, the yoga mat, and the text layer) for archiving, then saved as a 500kb (+/-) .jpg file for Willow's web use.
