I spent a couple of hours on Sunday morning in the Dublin Camera Club studio at a workshop taking photos of Anna who goes by Nute Newt. Anna was a very willing and patient model who was extremely helpful for those of us less experienced with studio work. I used the studio lights with a trigger. I have programmed in studio settings on my mirrorless R6 on one of the programmable functions as there are a couple of tricky things that can prevent you from taking shots. I found it was important to turn off exposure simulation and also to shoot with mechanical shutter. In both shots featured here I had the shutter set at 1/160 sec. with an aperture of f/8 and ISO 100. When shooting in a studio I usually aim to set ISO at 100 and keep the shutter speed at less than 1/200 sec. to ensure it syncs with the flash. I will adjust the aperture between f/5.6 and f/11.
It can be hard to choose images out of a batch taken to edit and feature. I find I prefer the model looking at the camera or slightly turned from camera, and the arms close to their body. I sometimes find it difficult to get a nice tone when converting to mono, but in the image above after editing in Lightroom I brought the image into Photoshop to tidy up the background and there I experimented with DXO Silver Effects. It is a piece of software I rarely use, I find that many of the presets soften the image too much or make it too harsh. But, the darken lighten seemed to work in this image. The colour image has a warmer tone to it particularly with the light pink scarf.
I couldn't decide on which image to feature so had to include both.
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