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Portrait Baylands



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cameraCanon EOS 7D

settings Aperture f/6.3 ISO 400 Shutter 1/160 

upload_dateNov, 2014

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12 Comments |
hkphotography
 
hkphotography December 28, 2014
Nicely done
JoanLoBo
 
JoanLoBo March 10, 2015
Love the lighting..What was your light source. Love the tones, framing, pose..great job.
RobinV
 
RobinV March 26, 2015
Congratulations on your place in the finals, well deserved
KayBrewer Platinum
 
KayBrewer March 27, 2015
Congratulations! Finalist in Single Light Portraits contest - way to go!!
iwonabibillo
 
iwonabibillo May 11, 2015
Lovely! Well deserved :)
KayBrewer Platinum
 
KayBrewer May 12, 2015
Congratulations again - Finalist in Portrait Galore contest!
StuartWright
 
StuartWright May 27, 2015
Congratulations! Portraits Galore top award !!
normg123 PRO+
 
normg123 July 11, 2015
Another wonderful portrait.
Tomek PRO+
 
Tomek January 30, 2016
Wow, stvarno napredujes! Fantastican portret!
PeterEvans23 Ultimate
 
PeterEvans23 October 15, 2016
Love everything about this, totally awesome portrait !!
brianbaitystudio
 
brianbaitystudio July 21, 2017
like JoanLoBo, I would love to know how you lit this photo. Most excellent!
ARUNASPINIGIS
 
ARUNASPINIGIS November 10, 2020
Fabulous

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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken in the natural preserve area called 'Baylands". It was a beautiful winter sunny day and the only source of light in this picture is the sun itself.

Time

The image was taken in the afternoon hours when sun was on its descent. Model was facing the sun and her face was perfectly lit-up by the sun.

Lighting

With this image I wanted to accomplish the same effect that I would if I was using artificial source of light (like flash) by using natural daylight.

Equipment

For this image I used Canon 7d camera with the Canon Macro EF-S 60mm F/2.8. I like shooting portraits with this particular lens because it gives very crisp focused portraits with shallow depth of field blurry backgrounds.

Inspiration

This photo is my personal favorite because it was not staged, or just a little bit. The model just looked at me (she is very natural) and I just kept her in the same pose until I adjusted all the settings on my camera. And yes, she just stood there waiting for me…but that's what it takes to become a model, does it!?

Editing

This photo is a bit post-processed. For post-procesing my images I like to use Lightroom in combination with CS6. On this particular image I enhanced model's eye a bit. Photo was taken as the RAW file so I enhanced the colors using Lightroom.

In my camera bag

In my camera bag I carry Canon EOS 7d. Tamron 18-270mm f/3.5-6.3 Di II and Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 Macro. Just recently, to my camera bag I added wide angle Canon lens EF-S 10-22 mm f/3.5-4.5 USM. Tripod that I use is Hakuba S-4500. Not to forget several compact flash cards (I have 32 GB for the RAW format images and movies, and also several 4 GB flash cards just in case). On a longer trips I always take my computer and external drive for extra back-ups.

Feedback

Having a great model, good equipment, perfect timing and lots and lots of tries - its all it takes to get a great photo. And once you hit it, you'll realize that even people without any photography background or experience have the eye for a special image. This will be the one everybody (including yourself) likes…a lot!!!

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