Practice studio shoot No.3
The lovely model is Estelle Martin-Iyet, French erasmus student in 5th year at Bath
Architecture
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One of the best features on my new 7D is the ability to use the built in pop-up flash as a sync for off-camera speedlites. This I utilised throughout this shoot and having the full and variable power of a flash (modifier: rogue flashbender) was much more effective and controllable than solely using lamps and umbrellas for creative light and flash only as front-on fill.
Prep for this shoot involved scanning Bobbie's 'Bazaar' fashion magazines (which actually have some excellent photo shoots in) for poses I liked, and adapting them with Estelle as I shot.
All in colour this time. Estelle's preference, but it was my aim to get a bright full colour shoot also. Having the speedlite off-camera really helped to bring the colour out effectively.
Edited using aperture for the most part, Nix Software Viveza2 for final colour edits.
As usual for me no airbrushing or selective photoshop.
The shoot was a load of fun - Thanks to Estelle who was fantastic! My confidence and a general sense of knowing what I wanted, as well as knowing more instinctively how to set the lighting (still lots to work on here though), helped plenty with the success of the shoot.
Afterwards we all drank (Spanish) wine and had lasagne.
As usual you also can view the set on Flickr
As always cutting criticism and comments via email (tomglendinning.photography@gmail.com) or
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If you don't like something then please tell me - and try to articulate why, it is tremendously useful to have feedback like this.
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