It's rare that we have a good sunlight at a time like this. Autumn is coming and everything is turning yellowish. Took the chance, grab the camera and went out for the shooting.
Light is so much important in portraiture. It brings out the shape and curves of a human body. Without it, your model will look dead plain like Roti Prata.
Found a good spot for the first photo, the sunlight is coming from camera left. The trees are casting shadow on May's body. So we have a good shadow/highlights. With this, the photo does not turn out plain.
Next, we move on to another spot for a different angle of light. Judging from the photo yourself, the light is coming down from camera top right. I'm using the lowest aperture for my lens (f4.0). It depends really on what you are shooting. For this case, I'm trying to blur out the background so the trees and branches do not clutter up my final image.
May was good enough to give different poses and ideas. I think it's essential to work as a team with the model. Of cos, don't try to take advantage of your model.
This is my personal favorite photo for this post. I've always been a fan of black and white. Let me hear your thoughts.
...next: part II
PS: Anyone uses google chrome yet? The new google internet browser.
6 comments:
Good stuff. Well informed. keep it up. I wish I'm that girl posing for you. heek!
My personal favourite is the third one. The eyes speak for themselves. Muey Bien!
Good catchlight, very important, try 11.00 or 1 o clock. Not too big, not too small.
Watch out the ampit when posing, not a very good sight. :)
Learn about masculine and feminine poses, and types of lighting.
Use selective focus, but make sure you focus the EYES.
Use RAW, and you don't have to worry about colour cast, sort that out later. Of course, it is better to sort it out in JPEG before you shoot if possible.
//malaysiahotbabe: gosh, I'm blushing now.
//pulpo: do you have a blog? Thank you for subscribing to my blog.. :)
//seontan: Always take in RAW. But personally I still love jpg. Have to train myself to get the correct shots all the time and not rely on raw.
Me! Me! I'm using the chrome.
Will, erm, might blog about it soon. Btw, I've changed my blog url. Thank you for the constant dropping by. :)
Dropping by to say hi. Love your work. When are you coming to Malaysia? Maybe I should hire you to take some pictures :)
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