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Ekaterina, (or Kate, if your tongue trips over her name), was the model at the top of my recent review of the Canon 8-15mm f\/4L fisheye zoom lens<\/a>. Since the fisheye makes everything bendy, and it must be the least flattering of lenses for portraits, I wanted to show a handful of images from the rest of the photo session with her. These should portray her graceful beauty much better.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The images here were all shot with available light only.\u00a0The approach was exactly the same as described in the article,\u00a0\u201cusing the available light\u201d is not random<\/a>. In that article I described how I photographed a bride using available light only, by positioning her such that the light just had<\/strong> to come in at a flattering angle. Predictably so. Similar here with these two photos of Ekaterina – I had her against the doorway which was deep enough under the canopy of the buildings. So the soft light was coming in mostly from 30-45 degrees from above – that natural softbox effect. Very flattering.<\/p>\n camera settings: 1\/320 @ f3.2 @ 400 ISO camera settings: 1\/500 @ f3.2 @ 320 ISO Working on the shadow side of a building with this bright yellow wall, I noticed there was this splash of glare from the sun being reflected off glass.<\/p>\n This created a natural spot-light effect which I then Ekaterina position her face towards. Here is the comparison image where I asked her to just look at the camera – no regard for the direction of light. It just creates a messy pattern of light. This just underlines the idea that “using the available light” isn’t random.<\/p>\n This idea ties in with two other related articles: <\/p>\n Back to the final image:<\/p>\n Being so intent on checking how the light fell on her face, I didn’t note the shadow that her shoulder was casting. I should’ve caught that at the time and asked her to gently roll her shoulder back until the shadow isn’t as distinct. The learning curve is never-ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" photo session (available light) – Ekaterina Ekaterina, (or Kate, if your tongue trips over her name), was the model at the top of my recent review of the Canon 8-15mm f\/4L fisheye zoom lens. Since the fisheye makes everything bendy, and it must be the least flattering of lenses for portraits, I wanted to show Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[140,24,31,1],"tags":[886,256],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-available-light-photography","8":"category-models","9":"category-photo-shoot","10":"category-uncategorized","11":"tag-available-light-photography","12":"tag-photo-session-with-model","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8861"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43688,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861\/revisions\/43688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8861"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/ekaternina\/NV1_1749-edit.jpg\")
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\nNikon D3; \u00a0Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S VR II<\/a>\u00a0(B&H)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/ekaternina\/NV1_1707-edit.jpg\")
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\nNikon D3; \u00a0Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S VR II<\/a>\u00a0(B&H)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/ekaternina\/tangents\/NV1_1726-600.jpg\")
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\n–\u00a0direction of the light \u2013 using available light<\/a> (model – Shawna)
\n– available light vs fill-flash<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(Jessica & Michael)
\n–\u00a0finding interesting available light<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n