Lovely images of your daughter, Derek! In 10 years or so, you will have to deal with boys that show interest in her . I hope you understand that I didn't mean it in a bad way and consider this as a compliment.
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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 - 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.
Sep 04, 2017 at 10:38 PM
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. I hope you understand that I didn't mean it in a bad way and consider this as a compliment.