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Model Day
Today where I live was a very pleasent start to the day, the sun was shining and there were moments when the weather was really great. There I was walking around a local supermarket and I noticed my iPhone actually vibrate in my pocket, which is unusaul – I was very surprised to see that a friend and a potential model was asking if I was available in the next couple of days. So to cut a long story short by the time we actually got to meet up the weather was nasty and windy, with rain and drizzle and the clouds had come in so I had to rely on my pocket lightning to provide the light.
I’m no expert with the old flashes and I don’t really enjoy using them but I have recently got into trying to do some of the Strobist style stuff – which gives your photographs a very exciting touch, with a very stylized visual effect. The first for me today was to be shooting totally in RAW – I could not believe the difference that it actually made to the images. I used to wonder where all the vivid colours had gone in some of my photographs. It was interesting to see as the set of images was loaded into Apple ® Aperture 2.1 it pulls the .jpg into the program first as its the smallest and then drags the NEF file in second – and you would not believe the difference that the RAW file had. The jpeg was pale and washed out and the NEF just popped – it was at this point I was very glad that I’d used the RAW file setting.
The wind was blowing so hard that we had to stay in the lee of a large building to seek shelter from the weather. In fact once we had found this spot Maria described it as being relatively warm, and to think not five minutes before on the other side of the building it was too cold to work.
Today we were practising the I’m far too moody to be having my picture took but I look good when I am model look.
All in all I am very happy with the results that were achieved today and having the opportunity of working with Maria again, with those interesting Mediterranean looks.
If your an agency in the North of England, drop me a line and I will put you in touch with Mariah. [andrew [at] sportpictures.co.uk]