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| Another natural light portrait |
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| Portrait using window light. |
I set up a shoot with Beverly, a friend and co-worker. She'd wanted to do this for a while but our schedules never seemed to matchup. when it finally did it was fabulous. We agreed to meet at Serenity Park for the photoshoot. I arrived earlier and began scouting the area for places to shoot. While scouting I met another photographer who informed me that there was a wedding in a few minutes. (Bummer!)
So we drove around looking for an alternative.
Turns out it's all about the location. We ended up a most unexpected place, which I will refer to as 'an abandoned government building', which turned out to be great! The light was amazing and Beverly was great! I spotted a few areas where the light seemed interesting, set up a single light took a couple shots then forgot about the flash because available light was just so lovely. I really enjoy using available light for portraits. Having to deal with the camera and model only really simplifies things (though there are times that your flash just can not be ignored. I did use a flash for fill in some of the images.)
The three images in this post were converted to black & white after the shoot. I'm really experimenting with black & white conversions so I spent quite some time doing conversions and messing with the luminosity of various color channels to see how that would affect the different areas of the images. Changes in the red channel seem to be more important for skin tones. I will probably post something about that in the future.
This is one of many planned photoshoots. I'm excited about my next shoot as well.
If you're interested in doing a shoot with me just drop me a line and we'll set it up.
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This is my favorite photo in the shoot. For this shot it's all available light. I use my 70-200 f/2.8 lens extensive for this session. Here I was probably about 8 feet away from her.
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