{"id":1610,"date":"2011-07-20T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomontheroof.com\/blog\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2015-01-02T22:46:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T22:46:26","slug":"kasia-photo-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomontheroof.com\/blog\/kasia-photo-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Kasia Photo Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love photographing people but I always get a bit nervous before a photo shoot.\u00a0The images usually come out nice but I cannot know it for sure beforehand. Perhaps doing proper location scouting would make me feel more confident. This time I had a complete blackout in my head, no idea where to go. So we just walked until we came across this arch. I was attracted by its elegant form and color.<\/p>\n

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Kasia is a musician. I really like her pose in the above image, which I believe resembles a musical symbol. I shot these photographs with a wide angle lens, 35mm on a full frame camera. I totally love looking through this glass! When used from a low perspective it helps emphasize\u00a0the height of the model.<\/p>\n

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I lit these images with a single small flash in a Lastolite Ezybox 24″ softbox. It gives a bit more punchy light than my Westcott Apollo but I really like this light’s quality and how convenient it is to set up. Just pop it open and throw it on a stand.<\/p>\n

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Shooting at my sync speed 1\/200 s, at f\/6.3 and ISO 100 gave me an underexposure of the ambient by 1 stop. The flash was fine tuned until I was happy with the flash and ambient balance. Keeping everything in manual mode helped achieve consistent\u00a0exposures.<\/p>\n

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Racking out the lens to 200mm and shooting wide open (f\/2.8) gave a shallow depth of field and strong compression of perspective resulting in a pleasing bokeh. Still using my Ezybox.\u00a0You can tell where the light was by the shadows on the road and on her face.<\/p>\n

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The nuns passing by in the background were no coincidence. There is a monastery nearby and at times we could hear the beautiful\u00a0singing of the sisters.\u00a0At this point I knew I got the shots and could relax.\u00a0But as\u00a0we walked back towards the city center I\u00a0continued \u00a0photographing \u00a0just to get a larger variety of the images.<\/p>\n

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For this image I used\u00a0200mm, f\/2.8, 1\/50 s, ISO 1600. The red shapes are car lights – I waited for them to appear in the right spot. As it was already dusk and I was basically killing the ambient (except for those car lights) I added a second flash, camera right, to bring some highlights and contrast to the shadow side of the hair.<\/p>\n

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Back to 35mm but at f\/1.4. This very last shot was taken rather fast\u00a0at the Cloth Hall\u00a0in the center of Krakow. I think strong graphical elements like these repeated columns make a great background for a full-body portrait.<\/p>\n

Overall I am very pleased with the results. As always I spent a lot of time\u00a0analyzing\u00a0what worked and what went wrong. Next time I will have a more defined idea for the location but will stay open to any unexpected opportunities.<\/p>\n

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I love photographing people but I always get a bit nervous before a photo shoot.\u00a0The images usually come out nice but I cannot know it for sure beforehand. Perhaps doing proper location scouting would make me feel more confident. Kasia Photo Shoot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227,123,3],"tags":[137,138,135,121,120,136,133],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-photo-shoots","category-photography-blog-posts","tag-35mm-lens","tag-70-200mm-lens","tag-composition-in-photography","tag-lighting-in-photography","tag-photography-model","tag-posing-in-photography","tag-photography-technique"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomontheroof.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}