I recently had the pleasure of photographing Ashleigh in Santa Ana, California. She was my model for a photography workshop I was teaching there. I taught adaptive lighting techniques for portraiture, both in studio and on location.
After the shoot we opened up the images on a projector to show how great they looked without any adjustments – no corrections for exposure, color, anything. No filters for skin, no effects to fix images. Just awesome images right now of camera.
I taught this event for 2 days at the California Center for Digital Arts where I used their studio for the indoor photographs. For our outdoor location shoot, we stepped outside onto the street to use the sidewalk, alleyway, and nearby buildings – continually mixing sunlight with studio flash.
I love how these turned out and wanted to share them with you.
Ashleigh’s friend Natalie was her hair and make up artist, and she looked so pretty that I thought it’d be great to include her in a photograph too. Here they are together.
For the outdoor portraits, I liked them in both color and black and white. But the black & white gives them a great vibe with the textures of the street. And they work great in b&w for this trio design.
Here they are up close though so you can see how beautiful they each are.
Ashleigh did a great job and I appreciate her being my model for this event. And thank you to all the photographers that came to this 2-day learning event.
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And until next time, America.