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Holiday Lights Fun - Best of Dec 2017



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From a holiday themed shoot. First time shooting in very low light using holiday lights to enhance ambiance.

From a holiday themed shoot. First time shooting in very low light using holiday lights to enhance ambiance.
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Winner in Honeys & Holiday Lights Photo Challenge
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TraidPhotoClique
 
TraidPhotoClique December 04, 2018
Great Shot this would be great in my Honeys & Holiday Lights Photo Challenge!
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Behind The Lens

Location

This was taken in Joliet, IL. I do not have my own studio so I rented out a hotel room for this shoot.

Time

This was taken during mid-day, but with the blackout shades I was able to make the room very dark.

Lighting

I really wanted to capture the ambience from the holiday lights which were the only light source used during this set of photos. I wanted the lights to just highlight the model.

Equipment

I took this photo with my Canon EOS Rebel SL1 and my 18-55mm lens. I set the camera to ISO800 to take in more light but just enough to highlight the subject.

Inspiration

This was my first holiday themed set and I had seen photos such as this previously and wanted to try my hand. It was an extremely fun shoot to work on and I feel that you can see that in the final result

Editing

The only post-processing that was done on this photo was to clean up the lighting a bit. Otherwise the photo is displayed as shot.

In my camera bag

I'm using a Canon EOS Rebel SL1. I've recently upgraded some of my lenses. I am currently carrying prime 55mm and 35mm in addition to my 15mm-55m and 75-300mm lenses.

Feedback

If you want to try and capture something like this, my advice is just try it. You can try it at home with out a subject just to test out lighting or if you have a model to work with who is opening to experimenting different styles then go for it. You'll never know if you can do it if you don't try.

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