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Beauty Close Up

NIKON D3400

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Aperture f/2.8 ISO 6400 Shutter 1/250 Focal Length 500/10

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Dec, 2018

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My friends Labrador Marley, he has a thing for crocs and loves to carry them around so we just had to have a photo of him with one.

I love fine art and reflection photography and wanted to have a shot at it. So we got a perspex mirror and had a play about with poses and I just love

My friend and her partner where helping me with some hand photography when we went on a break, I saw them resting on one another while looking at thei

Put Your Paw In My Hand, I Will Protect You

Model - Isabella Bliss
Shot at PRP Studios
Taken & Edited by myself Natasha Ibell - Redpanda Art & Photgraphy

Behind The Lens

Location

I took this photo in my living room, where I set up a, small make shift studio.

Time

I did this shoot after work with my friend as the model. It was around 7pm when I started taken photos.

Lighting

I used a speed light on constant, using the modeling light, and set it to 38. The light was around 2ft above our head plans set to a slight diagonal slant downwards.

Equipment

Equipmtment used; my camera - a Nikon D3400, with a 50mm Prime lens. I used my Neewer 300W speedlight, black cardboard as absorption boards, 1 meter of black cloth as a back drop on my and a mirror as a relector.

Inspiration

I love portraits and beauty shoots. I have always wanted to do one, I have discovered I like black and white photos too so wanted to merge the 2. We too many head and shoulder shots when I wanted to try a mirror reflection type on photo, when the model looked down I just loved the symmetry and contours of the face at this angle I had to zoom in and start snapping.

Editing

I edited the photograph in Adobe Lightroom I cleaned up some blemishes using the clone tool and I changed the colour to monochrome and edited the amount of white and blacks in the photo I took alot of the white out and hightened the shadows to bring the freckles a.bit more forward and into the picture.

In my camera bag

I tend to have my camera, 3 lenses as 18mm-55mm (kit lens), 50mm Prime lens full frame (on a cropped frame.sensor. and my 70mm - 300mm lense. I also will have a few generic props like a touch, lens ball and a reflector.

Feedback

Make sure to use a slightly higher focus point to keep majority of the face sharp. Play about with your lighting positions to get a flattering contour on your model and compose your model/image to fit well into the frame.

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