Our guest speaker is a professional photographer which truly showed in her presentation and the young lady who attended with her performed wonderfully in spite it being her first time before a camera in this manner. Following a walk-through of the background and lighting setup we were given a detailed explanation of how to use our camera and interact with the model.
In order to get a different perspective, I chose to use the occassion to practice my personal 'photo journalistic' style and shot from the back and sides of the room to record the interaction between the photographer and her subject which I pre-visualised would presented it's own unique opportunities. Because I chose not to use flash and the room was in total darkness apart from the tungsten modelling lights of the strobes in the soft boxes, I had to explore the capabilities of the Canon 7D. Where the 40D struggled at ISO 800, I decided to push the 7D to its limit and ended up shooting in manual mode at ISO 6400 in order to shoot hand held rather than be restricted by using a tripod.
I was blown away by the result! Whilst the darkest areas of the images were certainly noisey, this was easily dealt with during processing of the RAW format files in Lightroom 3. Three of the resulting photos are posted here for your comment. I would have been happy to get one good shot.
This first shot shows the studio setup in our club room around which our members were able to view the action before trying their hand.
Canon 7D, 24-105mm Lens, Focal Length 40mm, ISO 3200, 1/30Sec, f/4.0, No Flash, Hand Held.
Here I caught the photographer framing and focusing before capture.
Canon 7D, 24-105mm Lens, Focal Length 55mm, ISO 6400, 1/50Sec, f/4.0, No Flash, Hand Held.
The model was relaxed and preparing for her next pose when this shot was taken.
I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed taking them.
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