Simona - Portrait Photography

All photos taken using an off-camera flash as fill light (see technical details below).

Technical Details

All of these photos were taken with an off-camera flash (SB800) on a 6-foot Impact light stand, triggered by a Cactus V2 flash trigger, serving as fill light to the sun. In most of them, the flash was modified with a Lumiquest Softbox III, and in all cases, i used a light orange Rosco gel from the Strobist collection (full CTO Roscosun 85 #3401) over the flash to match the color of the low late afternoon sun. In a few I used a small silver reflector (the back side of a PhotoVision digital calibration target) to minimize the shadows underneath the face. Shot with a Nikon D3x with a Sigma 50mm 1.4 lens in manual mode at ISO 100, mostly at a shutter speed of 200, and between f9 and f11 aperture. Post-processing in Apple Aperture (minor exposure adjustments, increase saturation and luminance of reds slightly).