Tati is an actress and friend that I used to live with along with many other artists that we shared a house with in Los Angeles, before we all found ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic. I must sound like a broken record considering how often I post a photo along with a story about how I used to live with that person in a big house in LA, but so many of the portraits I've taken over the last couple of years were of these people. Tati was staying in LA with a school visa that expired only a month after this photo was taken, and the day I took this photo was when her mom and brother came to visit her from Brazil. I had offered to take a photo of the three of them to commemorate their visit, but after I had taken that photo I also got this lovely portrait of just my friend Tati. I took this photo in all natural light, with a silver reflector for fill light. Typically I don't shoot portraits like this with such a shallow depth of field, but regardless of my mistake I still like the outcome.
Shot using the original Canon 5D with a Canon 85mm f/1.8 lens attached set to f/1.8, 1/800th sec, ISO 800.
Jan 28, 2021 at 01:43 PM
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