My saviour
About a year ago, I met a Sheila in a bus as I was going back home. As we were discussing about photography, I put my camera on the seat and showed her some of my work on my iPhone. I didn't realize the bus has arrived to my stop so got caught by surprised and jumped out of the seat grabbing all my stuffs: bag, lightstands, reflector etc... And guess what? I forgot my camera on the bus! I really hated myself at that time. But my lucky star was shining on me that evening, Sheila was just a very honest person and called me back from the number on the card I gave her earlier! I'm glad to see there are still some people like her in this world!
So to show my gratitude, I offered Sheila to have her portrait done. It took us about a year to come up with a date that suits both our agenda.
Came the day, I went to Sheila's place and did the photoshoot in her flat. It was a great experience and we both enjoyed the quick photoshoot at lunch time.
Sheila's flat was lovely with a window opening on a great view of the neighborhood golf course.
I started to do some portrait with some off-camera flashes. My mistake was to try to balance with the ambient light, there was blue curtains which gave some color cast that I didn't notice on the day but that make it a bit more difficult at post-processing time.
The first and fourth portrait below were taken in natural light. I closed the curtains leaving just a little opening and place Sheila in front of it. All the room was in the shade except for a little stripe of soft light landing on Sheila's face. By playing the curtain I could control the tone of the background wall.
The third image was done with a gridded flash gun against the curtain.
The flash lit portraits were using a silver umbrella as key light.
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Comments
Great shoot.
Sunday 15 August 2010 12:43:48 pm
Commented by Pshemek
Mystical Photos
Good on Sheila
Wednesday 25 August 2010 12:52:37 am
Commented by Luxury Scarves
Goldstone Peru
Nice Portraits
Thursday 16 December 2010 1:10:05 pm
Commented by pawel
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