Nikon D2x with f1.4, 85mm lensWow how time flies when your having fun. I've been a bit slack in the blogging department lately. Guess you could use the word busy to describe things around here lately and if the last couple of days have been any indication it may not slow down for a while yet.
The image above is of the lovely Jess, a local area model who occasionally visits us for some portfolio photo updates. The outback photographer had the great pleasure of shooting with Jess earlier in the week, and while a lot of portraits from this session where shot around the farm, this one was created in Excitations Barn Studio.
Using the simplest one light studio set up you can get, a single softbox up close and personal to Jess, on camera left. A plain grey background and my all time favorite portrait photography lens, the tacky sharp Nikkor F1.4 85mm. I know that some of you will have noticed a second catch light in Jess's eyes and think I'm fibbing when I said it was a one light portrait. Ok there was a second light, I often use an on camera flash set at 128th power to trigger my studio strobes. The trigger unit in this case a Nikon SB600, which by the way is an excellent little flash unit.
Jess has great skin, so this shot has had almost nothing done to it in post. Just a quick tweak of levels and the addition of a little custom diffusion in Photoshop and convert to black and white using one of our own conversion profiles.
The image above is of the lovely Jess, a local area model who occasionally visits us for some portfolio photo updates. The outback photographer had the great pleasure of shooting with Jess earlier in the week, and while a lot of portraits from this session where shot around the farm, this one was created in Excitations Barn Studio.
Using the simplest one light studio set up you can get, a single softbox up close and personal to Jess, on camera left. A plain grey background and my all time favorite portrait photography lens, the tacky sharp Nikkor F1.4 85mm. I know that some of you will have noticed a second catch light in Jess's eyes and think I'm fibbing when I said it was a one light portrait. Ok there was a second light, I often use an on camera flash set at 128th power to trigger my studio strobes. The trigger unit in this case a Nikon SB600, which by the way is an excellent little flash unit.
Jess has great skin, so this shot has had almost nothing done to it in post. Just a quick tweak of levels and the addition of a little custom diffusion in Photoshop and convert to black and white using one of our own conversion profiles.
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