We had a friend come over for a quick shoot. She’d worked as a model when she was young and boy could she nail looks. We used primarily a soft box key light just off center and then a wide angle shoot-through umbrella 4 stops down as a fill light. Probably should have brought that up a bit and then angled it down to fill in her hair more.
This shot was at f/6.3 with an 85mm lens at 1/200s at ISO100. I was pretty happy with the skin tones and the beautiful catch-light. This shot was an early test shot and has a few stray hairs that I could have photoshopped out. We got a little bit more careful later in the shoot. An extra light on the backdrop could have help lighten that up a bit.
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