The British summer have yet to really start this year, but at least the temperature is starting to warm. I made use of a break in weather this week and did a shoot with the beautiful Ema Sol. She is originally from Slovakia. I wanted to do a shoot in the park in late evening.
We met up in St James Park near Buckingham Palace for this shoot. I decided to shoot with my 85mm f1.8 lens as wide open as possible while keeping my flash sync speed to 1/200s. I was in luck as it was a cloudy evening and under the tree, I was able to shoot at f1.8 at 1/200s at ISO 100. This mean the images were over exposed by 0.5 stop and some highlight was blown out. I had a polarizing filter with me in case I had to reduce the ambient light level, but did not use it. When I saw the test image on the LCD, I was very happy with the results. By shooting at f1.8, the bokeh was dream like and beautiful which complemented the slight over exposure. I was traveling very light and I only took my camera body, flash trigger, 50mm f1.8, 85mm f1.8, a light stand and a Canon 540EZ flash with me. I didn't even take any light modifier with me. Ema needed the smallest amount of fill flash which I think was 1/64 power.
Ema was a delight to work with. She arrived in immaculate make up and hair styled as agreed before hand. She needed very little help with posing and I was very happy with the resulting images. Here are a few of my favorite photos from this shoot. I must use the 85mm f1.8 lens much more and wide open.
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