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cameraNIKON D800E

settings Aperture f/2 ISO 400 Shutter 1/200 Focal Length 1050/10 

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20 Comments |
vickivikram
 
vickivikram September 16, 2017
Beauty????
pacinodeppfan1
 
pacinodeppfan1 October 06, 2017
Beautiful portrait
Donkey22705
 
Donkey22705 December 07, 2017
Beautiful! This photo says so much.
Cruiser87 Premium
 
Cruiser87 December 08, 2017
Stunning model / Great lighting
bevrichard
 
bevrichard December 14, 2017
Y0SA
mark-bryant PRO
 
mark-bryant December 22, 2017
Beautiful model
JayneBug Ultimate
 
JayneBug January 11, 2018
The lighting on this is spot on...lovely image.
AdirahsEyes
 
AdirahsEyes January 29, 2018
Perfection in lighting & pose...so delicate.
robertmcdill Ultimate
 
robertmcdill April 01, 2018
The lighting makes this photo with a beautiful subject.
BenHamza
 
BenHamza April 16, 2018
Beauty
alexraccanello
 
alexraccanello May 10, 2018
This makes me very hard fantastic model what is her name
MrJBond Ultimate
 
MrJBond June 18, 2018
Stunning model, stunning capture
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1000WordsPhoto August 04, 2018
Gorgeous model. The lighting is fantastic. Great capture!
michaeldahlvik
 
michaeldahlvik September 29, 2018
Omg what a goddess very hard to not to look.
michaeldahlvik
 
michaeldahlvik May 11, 2019
Beautiful lady thanks for sharing.
tysonator
 
tysonator October 05, 2019
Great Portrait, love the monchrome
TN-P
 
TN-P January 20, 2020
Excellent photo
andydrummond
 
andydrummond January 02, 2021
Lighting perfect highlights the female body perfectly...
jakubhal
 
jakubhal January 08, 2021
She Is so .... all one must ve And Javě to ve amazing perfekt women ..😍😍
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jakubhal January 08, 2021
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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was actually taken in a small passage between the living house and a factory, where the owners had a small company in the past. Today there is a house for a family and a Photostudio at the other side. Everything is old and made of wood. In fact, we did a photography workshop in the Studio there and Angelina was our model.

Time

After the workshop - I think it was about 6pm in summer - I asked her to create a few pictures in the old part of the studio. It is upstairs. Not suitable for a workshop. Everything is full of old furniture and stuff. But perfect for me and her to shoot. And the light up there was just perfect.

Lighting

The window was like a hexagon. But simple and old. The sky was a bit cloudy and the sun already at the other side of the building. So we had perfect indirect light through the window. The background of this picture is lit by a bit window. There is the entrance of the family house as you can imagine the door there. Because of the small window, we had much more light into her face and less light at her body. This gives a bit more detail into the body part. And very important for a good painting of the shape is, that she's turning the body a bit away from the light source, so we have more like a side-light on her body. The face is turned into the light, and that gives us a soft and beauty light and wonderful shadows to her face. The very good thing is the contrast in the overall composition. Where she is lit up by the light, the wooden background is dark. Where she is dark and in shadow, the background ist bright. So we have a perfect contrast on each side of the model and so she pops out of the picture.

Equipment

For this picture I wanted a backgound that is already blurry and a tack sharp model. Because the eyes are in line with the body, we can easily have her in focus and blur the background. With an 85mm Lens, this was not very difficult. It was my Sigma Art 85mm on my Nikon D800e body. But the picture is not as old as this Camera body may seem to guess. I just used my Camera for many years, because it gave me exactly what I was looking for in my work. Usually the best combination for me was the Leica Summicron-R 50mm for this camera. But for this picture, I chose a different lens, for the reasons as described above. The 85 gives a faster fall-off in blurring the bokeh than the 50 does.

Inspiration

Angelina is booked very often for lingerie shots. I can totally understand that. But I love to take pictures with her, where the sexyness is not in focus. Even if it is a lingerie picture and it is sexy of course, I love her mood she gives me through her face. Thats what makes the difference for me. It is not a sexy mood there. And that combination gives the image more depth than a picture which tells just "I am sexy". For me it is important to tell "I am a woman, a human being". The respect for my models is very important to me.

Editing

In post process I optimized contrasts and did some dodge and burn to support the already created shapes. I do not like to do very much post processing but to make the image pop, I have to enhance the contrasts.

In my camera bag

So as you can imagine from the text above, I travel light. I just carry my camera and two or three lenses with me. Sometimes a reflector too, but nothing else, if I shoot on location. Always with me - my 50mm prime lens. And most of the times a 35mm and / or an 85mm. Thats all. It's kinda funny when people ask to help me with my equipment if I arrive at a set, and I grab my bag and tell them: "Thank you I already have everything I need!"

Feedback

I you want to create similar pictures, just look for a window and a background which is able to give you some blur into the background. There are some key features here. The contrast from left to right - background dark / model bright and model dark / background bright. Bokeh. Keep the model in focus and blur everything else to make the model pop out of the background. Light. Face the nose of the model towards the light, turn the body a bit away from the light. Model. Cross the legs, so that the shape of the body becomes smaller at the bottom of the image and stand on one foot to tilt the hip a bit. That gives you shape into the body. Always look for the bottle form. Simply take a look at a coke bottle. That's the shape we try to achieve - a small waist. Between waist and arm there's a gap which shapes the form even more because of the strong contrast between background and model. And always show respect. Being honestly interested in the people in front of your camera is the key to beautiful pictures with a mood.

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