Model in the Blossom

My most recent Model was Libbie which her mum put her name down for my need model.

I had an idea of a model in between the blossoming trees of Harrogate. The trees are loosing their blossom fast and we just had to hope the weather was going to stay sunny.
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I use a number of different weather apps and all said that it was going to be cloudy on the chosen day of the shoot. So I cancelled Libbie on the Friday, later to message Libbie’s Mum on early Sunday morning as the sun was coming through the curtains.

Shoot On…

We met early afternoon on the Sunday. The condition was near perfect for what I wanted. Sun and slight bit of wind. The Blossom was falling from the slight wind.

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We walked to the middle of one path of blossom trees and started taking pictures. First I used my Sony A77 with the Sigma 28-300mm lens and off camera flash x2 (hvl-f42am)._DSC1439_1

I used the flashes to light up the body from the right as the sun was coming from the left. As you can see one is on the floor facing upwards and the other is on a tripod just above waist height. See that this was too bright I added my Zomie ND Variable filter.

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We changed location to a different path not to far from the first location. I place the flash guns a bit further back than before and changed the lens to the Sony 16-50mm ssm. The lens allowed me to get a more shallow depth of field. The sun came from the behind right and I needed to light up the front of the model. I placed one flash gun further back to the left so it did not over power the sun and held the other flash gun in my had pointing towards the model, I reduced the brightness of the flash again to not over power the sun but to create enough light to light up the body and face.

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James (1986) born from Harrogate, England and educated at Harrogate College and Leeds Metropolitan University in Multimedia, he is a visual artist working predominately with Photography and Video after been interested in film and photography since he was at secondary school buying his first video camera at age 16, later going on to buy his first DSLR camera at age 21. After learning techniques and styles in both film and photography he wanted to carry on and produce work at a professional standard. His work is inspired by natural surroundings, capturing the atmospheric, romance and drama of the nature around him. Inspired by travel after visiting exotic places around the world and in his home County of North Yorkshire, also passionately working with the night sky has brought about his first commercially available collection of two sets of ten limited edition pieces. If you are wanting a print that is unique and different from other photographers have a flick through and order yours today. For more information and contact about these Collections please see contact details below.

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