Outdoor model portrait

in Model Photography by Jamie HIBBERT — July 22, 2008 at 8:00 am | 0 comments

Natural light portrait

Outdoor model set

This was my first attempt of working with a model. It was a great day as the weather was perfect however, the conditions were changing very quickly and a lot of the photographs were spoilt due to the fast changes in the light.

The thing I had not considered was making a sound plan of images that I wanted to capture. I have always normally been led by the conditions and situations I find my self in. This was not good, I felt the model was looking for more direction from me and I learnt a very valuable lesson from this.

Plan your shoot time

If you ever have the chance of working with a model, make sure you have some strong ideas in your head. You need to work out what you are going to achive and how this will be done!!!!

Anyway, despite all this between us I got a great selection of images, 2 of which I have shared with you here.

Post capture processing

They both required an amount of post capture editing to get the feel that I wanted. The image to the left and above had bright blue sky as the back drop a few adjustment layers later and a bit of dodging and burning was required to get the effect I was looking for. I would be interested to hear and tips or ideas you might have to share with us.

Ink skies

I will write some basic tutorials over the coming months to explain in greater depth how to carry out some simple photograph editing, as well as link to some great articles and resources on the web to guide you closer to that perfect digital photograph.

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