Gary Clennan wrote:
Joshua - perfect color balance and skin tone in this shot! Well done.
Thank you very much, Gary!
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My preference of lighting for portraits has always been using soft light (flash with modifier, reflector, etc.) to get that wrap around lighting effect with minimal shadows. But lately I feel that it got a little bit stale. So, yesterday, I tried a simple trick at a session in downtown Los Angeles. I used the bare flash mounted on a boom, positioned the flash fairly close to the models head and high up, ask her to look up at the flash or look straight at the flash. I underexposed the ambient light by 1- or 2-stop and slowly less and less as the sky was getting darker, depending on the scene but the flash power is still controlled by the camera at the regular exposure strength.
Needles to say, the lighting quality was harsh and it works best if the models looks at the flash, otherwise you will have to deal with deep shadows in the eye-socket, etc. A little bit of variety since something that you do over and over can get old.
"The mill was built in 1855 and was destroyed by Union troops during the Civil War, targeted for its role in paper production used for Confederate currency. The remnants of the foundation and walls stand, cathedral-like, beside Sope Creek..." Courtesy of https://www.atlantatrails.com/hiking-trails/a-getaway-close-to-home-sope-creek/
Wow! All the usual suspects! Ronny, Joshua, Werner, Helena, René, and Stephen, Karl-Heinz... Super set from you, Chuck, and Digital AM. Ricardo, what building is that? Tremendous shot, BTW!
philber wrote:
Wow! All the usual suspects! Ronny, Joshua, Werner, Helena, René, and Stephen, Karl-Heinz... Super set from you, Chuck, and Digital AM. Ricardo, what building is that? Tremendous shot, BTW!
Street art with Otus 55
Phillipe,
Thank you very much. Your shots above of street art are outstanding and such variety!
AGeoJO wrote:
Another image from a session late last year where I used the FE 70-200mm GM lens quite a bit. I just went back and still found a lot of images I need to work on and this is one of them at 200mm and at f/2.8.
Joshua, any more images of this model (with the floral arrangement in her hair) would be most welcome. (And not because I'm particularly interested in the FE 70-200mm GM.)
genji wrote:
Joshua, any more images of this model (with the floral arrangement in her hair) would be most welcome. (And not because I'm particularly interested in the FE 70-200mm GM.)
Hi Jonathon, she was my favorite model from that session and yes, I do have seriously plenty images of her, over 200 images, most of which remain unprocessed at this point. I went overboard and I got a little tired of editing them. Here is another one of her, taken with the same lens... Oh, yes, I know you are not interested in the lens . BTW, I posted 6 or 7 images of her on this thread previously, spread over time but mostly in November/December of last year.
. BTW, I posted 6 or 7 images of her on this thread previously, spread over time but mostly in November/December of last year.