SUN, SUN, SUN!

Maybe it was a little cold, but my Saturday night dusk shooting was freaking amazing. I've known the model for almost three years now, Deima is just incredibly beautiful. As an assistant I had make-up artist Dilan Arslan to support me. She also did a great job!

Let's look at two pictures, the one above, and this one:

Because I shot them with similar settings:

EOS 7D /w 50mm
first picture: f/3.5 - 1/500 - iso 100
second picture: f/4 - 1/500 - iso 100

I faced the sun, the model was facing me. So i had nice flares and light effects. I had my little reflector that made enough light to mirror some of the evening sun back at Deima. I used the SILVER side of the reflector - why, you ask? - well, the evening sun is so reddish-yellowish that using a golden reflector will result in orange-like skin. You need to "blue" or "cold" the light down, best done with a silver reflector (zebra would probably work as well). I did very little photoshop on these ones, just retouched 'em, sharpened 'em, and adjusted the color in the second one (made it blue-er). I left the flares in the first one, just because I like 'em. OK?

But eventually the sun faded away and I had no light anymore, well grab a flash and voila:

Same camera, same lense, same aperture, iso 400. I lowered the exposure time sharply - that means faster. I was working with 1/1000 - 1/2000 of a second. I wanted a darker sky - looks neat, huh? My beloved Aurora Firefly soft box on a boom with a Canon EX 580ii, connected with a cable and set to high-speed - completely e-ttl.
Photoshop? Just some retouch (i know i didn't get rid of the goosebumps - do you know how much f%cking work that is?) , sharpening, and then I added an orange and a red color filter - DONE.

I love the results and it was a lot of fun, thanks to everyone involved!

Peace on the streets SAAAN,

Jo Thomas

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