Continuing on the subject of portrait photography… A friend of mine, (who shoots Canon, nevertheless we get along quite well :-) recently mentioned how he just doesn’t have any pictures of him. I’m sure many other photographers can relate :-) Yesterday we met a couple hours before the sunset on USF campus and had a little fun… Click on the image below to see the entire gallery.

Equipment used: Nikon D300, SB-800 (on camera), Tamron 17-50 f/2.8, Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 VR. Processed in Nikon Capture NX 1.3

During labor day weekend I decided to expand my portfolio with some new portraits. One of Nadia’s friends (Natasha Mohr) was kind enough and agreed to model for me. On September 3rd we spent few hours on UT campus and ended up with a series of almost 100 pictures which I plan to narrow down to 10-15 for use in my portfolio. During the shoot I was trying to concentrate on few key aspects of portrait photography:
1) Lighting Lighting Lighting. I was trying to make sure Natasha was facing light at all times. When that could not be achieved, I was using on and off camera flash to fill.
2) No bad shadows on model’s face. Closely tied to item #1 - every time I’d see cross lighting, I’d try to fill with flash. Every time I’d notice “eye sockets” - I’d fill with flash
3) Skin tones. I wanted to make sure to give her skin this soft glamour look and feel. I tried to achieve that by nailing white balance in post processing and exposing for the skin tones to begin with.

Equipment used: Nikon D300, SB-800 (on and off camera), Tamron 17-50 f/2.8, Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 VR. Processed in Nikon Capture NX 1.3

Click on the image below to see the entire gallery.