In this photo shoot I decided to practice incorporating surroundings (mostly architecture) into my portraits, as opposed to my usual tendency which was to use limited depth of field to help avoid anything that might distract viewer’s attention from a portrait. Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 VR used to be my number one choice for portraits on a DX camera simply because it rendered awesome bokeh and blurred everything behind the main subject :)

This time however, I decided to try the exact opposite. Nikkor 14-24 f/2.8 was the lens of my choice and all the backgrounds were supposed to be as sharp as they can get, becoming part of every composition. Perhaps I went a bit too far, concentrating on the composition.. because the lighting part of the shoot completely slipped my mind. I found myself shooting with bad light, into the light with the harsh SB-800 blasts trying to overpower the sun and finally, completely missed the fact that we were shooting with the terrible pink color cast of the sun light bouncing off Don Cesar’s walls. What was I thinking? :)

Once again, Nikon D300 + Nikkor 14-24 f/2.8 (mostly), 24-70 f/2.8 and 70-200 f/2.8 VR on occasion.

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