Child portrait photography shoot in Cornwall

in Portrait photography by Jamie HIBBERT — May 4, 2010 at 5:18 pm | 1 comment

Child portrait photography.

A quick post to show you another photograph from a recent location portrait shoot. Another image from this shoot can be found here – Child location portrait shoot. Located here in digital-scene Cornwall photography blog.

This photograph was taken balancing the natural rim light (the sun) with an off camera strobe. The lens is a nifty fifty set at f 1.7, matrix metering with the camera picture control set to landscape (that set the colours and sharpening in camera.) all saved as a Nikon Neff file. The quick edit was done in Nikon Capture, with the black and white conversion and a quick levels tweak.

Working in this environment I set the camera to do the work, P or A modes, as light levels are changing quickly and you do not want to miss the pose. However, the flip side to this is a lot more time post processing the photographs.

There is always a pay off in photography and I guess part of the skill is learning which pay off to use, in what situation.