You may have seen the first of these shots in my 365 Project Update post. This shoot was something that Michi of Belle Sofianna events and I had discussed. I finally got some time in to do some post work and narrowing down the images that I liked.
If you remember I had said this shot didn’t go as I had planed or as smoothly.
First off we were running a bit late, the sun was setting and by the time I started setting up it had already dropped below the hillsides. I had about 5-10 minutes of visible light to start taking pictures. I had hoped to capture some of the sunset in the pictures, but of all the images, I liked the one’s at night better. Next time I will show up a lot earlier and prep a little bit more.
Next, I forgot my wireless triggers, so I was very limited on where I can take my camera having only a 6′ off shoe mount cord. Thank god I brought it with me though or else all the time Michi spend doing her make up and getting ready would have gone to waste.
Once I got the ball rolling the shoot was quick and smooth. It wasn’t hard to make the images look great, Michi is beautiful and has great poses, and no I’m not only saying that because she’s my girlfriend.
Another difficulty I had was getting the light stands to stay put in the uneven grounds, make sure you bring sand bags or weights to keep these things stable. It’s very easy to tip over especially outdoors and on a windy day it’s nearly impossible to keep up.
Anyways, here are the rest of the images I’ve selected:
So which one is your favorite?
1 (the top one), 2, 3 or 4?
Comments about the lighting and post work would be appreciated also.
