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A studio portrait photo from last Tuesday evening at North Cheshire Photographic Society.
There's a larger version of this photo here if you are interested. It also looks better on a white background.
The NCPS has a studio portrait session once a year and Geoff Robinson, who really knows his lighting, organises it and sets everything up for us.
The lighting this year was quite different from last year when Geoff used twin lights and a reflector. The photo on this link is what I got last year with the same camera but a 50mm lens.
This years lighting was very different, with just a single smallish softbox and one reflector, so I found that I needed to do more in post processing than last year. I found the stronger shadows difficult and I had to spend more time balancing the areas of light and shadow across the photo.
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@Punit: Thanks Punit! I used a Nikon 85mm f1.4D lens this time but it was photographed at f10, an aperture where all modern lenses would perform equally well.
@Ian Smith: Thanks Ian, I've got mixed feelings about that background screen too. I would have preferred an evenly toned grey one but this one here was a lot better than the passport photo booth style curtains on the second set-up that was available.
@Oleg: Thanks Oleg, the background screen wasn't separately lit. i think it gives that impression because I tried darkening it later in post processing and I haven't done it very well. I' ve left a lighter halo next to Nicola's face which gives that effect that it was lit.
@Curly: Thanks Curly, the reflector was very close - right next to the chair that Nicola was sat on for the portraits.
This image has been featured in 1 Remix collection.
NIKON D700
1/125 second
F/10.0
ISO 200
85 mm (35mm equiv.)
