This first photo I decided to talk about was a picture of a nice model named Katrina. I wanted to talk about what went into making this shot. The first thing you should know is that I used natual light with a white lightning flash with a soft umbrella that I shot through. My camera of choice was the EOS 5D Mark II using 70-300mm is usm lens. The focal length for this shot was 80mm at 1/60th sec at f 4.0.
The original background was a white wall. I decided to give it a more dramatic feel I went into photoshop and created a black background. I then changed the image to black and white however I left a very slight warm gradient over it so its not exactly black and white. I then made a duplicate copy and changed the mode to soft-light. I did some dodging and burning very lightly on lips and chest area.
I added an extremely soft vingette around the picture so her upper legs were cast in a bit of shadow. I'm very proud of this picture and I have to say The model was fantastic. Very professional and fearless. That is something that is very important on posing. The bigger the risk the higher the result. She was willing to try anything and am very grateful for that.
I actually entitled this picture Smooth Criminal as to me it had a very michael jackson type quality to the outfit if you ever watched the music video. I hope you found this informative or at least entertaining. I plan on writing about a lot of photography topics including reviews of equipment, photos of the day ect. I wanted to get something up to get going.
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