Author Archives: mirazaslove

Narrow Depth of Field Portrait

  I love big catchlights and narrow depth of field.   The lighting set up is illustrated below It was a five light set up with two strip boxes in front, a shoot-through umbrella off to the right and two bare head monolights illuminating the backdrop. I shoot in my home and it has relativelyContinue reading “Narrow Depth of Field Portrait”

First Tilt-Shift Lens is coming

I’ve been fascinated by tilt-shift lenses since I got acquainted with their unique style.  It took my husband a long time to figure out how the tilting and shifting works to produce those fascinating images. Sony doesn’t have any high quality tilt-shift lenses yet, so we grabbed a third party manufacturer, Arsat.  They’re based outContinue reading “First Tilt-Shift Lens is coming”

Ali on the Embarcadero

This was a night time shoot on the Embarcadero in San Francisco. Ali had rented a few dresses from Rent-the-Runway and wanted to get some new shots for her blog.  We used two speed lights to light her.  Overall it was a pretty quick and successful shoot.