Afgelopen weekeinde bij mijn goede vriend Ramon geweest. Bleek dat zijn dochtertje bijna jarig was en een foto op haar verjaardagstaart wilde. En tja, dan moet je opeens presteren.... Gelukkig had ik mijn camera bij me (wanneer niet) en een hond (?!) om het plaatje compleet te maken. Jammer dat hij zijn ogen bijna niet kan openhouden. Maar goed, alsnog gefeliciteerd!
How it's done...
It was in the early afternoon, around 14.00h, with the sun in blue sky. I posed her with her back to the sun so it would light her blond hair and shoulders. On camera left I have clamped my bare speedlite to the table at the model's eye level, as there was nothing higher around. I underexposed the background first, and then filled in with enough power from the speedlite, all manual. You can see I used my centre focus point on her right eye (camera left), which is still in the middle of the frame.
Settings: 1/160 sec (Fastest time with this speedlite trigger sample. My others go to 1/200 as advertised.) to have a pin sharp photo and a dark background. F/9 for a good depth of field with a blurred and darker background, which was on about 2 meters behind her. ISO is 125. It was a fine adjust after initially 100.
I still wonder why my Canon printer prints this with a blue-ish glow on the wooden planks on camera right. Still nice, but not as intended. The image you see here on your computer looks more as it was.
