Maria was lit by 2 Speedlites, one inside my Photoflex Octodome and the other inside The background is lit by a 3rd Speedlite.
I have always admired photographers who specialized in glamour.
They may be men but they are very in tuned to how makeup works on the variety of skin tones, hair color and facial features of the women they photograph.
Coordinating all that and wardrobe alone is enough to make my head spin.
Having a makeup artists on hand is definitely a god sent.
I recently connected with makeup artist and hair stylist Anna Cameron recently so we when we got together, we collaborated to photograph aspiring model Maria Nuñez.
Asia was photographed with a studio strobe WL800 inside a Photoflex Octodome gelled with 1/4 CTO. Lens was fitted with a fader filter which I could darken by turning to dial in a shutter speed and aperture combination to give me a handholdable shutter speed and wide aperture to blur out the palm trees in the background.ISO 100 1/350sec @ F2.8 80-200 zoom set at 140mm
I am a fan of Westerns.
But I always wonder why their directors choose to film gunfights at high noon.
I suppose it makes sense from the gunfighter’s perspective.
The entire scene is lit by the sun.
As long as a gunslinger doesn’t have eyes that are too light-sensitive and those eyes are shielded from the glaring sun overhead, it totally makes sense.
This selfie was made by a radio remote. My camera was mounted on a tripod high above us. 3 Studio strobes were used for this.One strobe into a gridded soft box on the left of my camera. 50mm lens Canon 5DMark2. ISO 100 1/125@ F8
I never stepped into a photography studio until I learned how to use my flash meter properly back when I shot film.
You couldn’t tell for sure what the studio strobes were going to give you even with modeling lights until you’ve learned to expose and meter consistently.
