Stare
September 6, 2014
I got the idea for this photo because I was really inspired by Lisa Holloway and wanted to shoot kids. I contacted one of my old students and met up with her mom and we set a date for shooting. I didn't really have any concept in mind except that I wanted to back light her.
It was really sunny day and we walked around quite a lot, but when I found this location, I knew it was going to look good. Sun was quite high at this point, but the trees behind filtered it just right and made the background glow.
I had to direct her a lot but at this point she was feeling more relaxed, so I'm glad that this was one of the last locations we did.
Canon 550D
85mm · f/1.4 · 1/800 · ISO 100
Really special light and great control of contrast
thank you so much
https://fstoppers.com/originals/how-be-chosen-fstoppers-picture-day-24218
thank you for the link. I think I totally missed that article actually, so thank you :)
Very cool. If the sun was high, then did you use the light coming through a hole in the tree's canopy to highlight her hair? LIke feathering a softbox. Lastly, did you use flash camera right to fill in? Love all the orange-ish colors in the background.
thank you. This is all natural light so no flash and yes the sun was filtered by the trees