Let me introduce my latest client, Ms. Juliet Valdez.
Juliet is a free spirit to say the least. She's smart, funny, and extremely talented.
Juliet came to me a couple months ago asking if I could do a lifestyle shoot with her. Of course, I said yes; however, this shoot took months to plan out. We finally shot together this past week in sunny San Diego.
We shot at two separate parks, one being Balboa Park. The photo shoot was roughly about 3 hours long. When we got to Balboa, it was full of people! We walked around several locations and took some photos in front of an enormous fountain, inside a plant house and used the beautiful architecture as our background.
Juliet was easy to work with. She took direction very well and did exactly as I told her.
I think the photos came out great and I am very glad my client thinks the same.
In this photo session, I used my Canon 7D and 2 lenses- an 18-55mm and a 10-24mm wide angle lens. The above photo was shot at 10mm giving my model very long legs (wide angle lens have that effect). I also used a reflector to bounce light onto my model's face.
I took about 200 photos and ended up choosing 24. Some might think that's not very many photos, but photographers need to have an excellent editing eye. One things is to shoot well, the other is to know how to edit and which photos to pick. I could have easily given my client more photos; however, they would turn out to be repetitive. I pick the best photos from a setting and give those to my clients.
I shot all photos on Manual Mode as I always do and changed my white balance to Daylight while being on Portrait mode as well. I don't believe I hit any speedbumps on this shoot. Everything worked out smoothly and I am glad for that.
As soon as I receive my client's complimentary 4x6 prints, I will mail them out to her along with a master copy of all her photos. That's a wrap for another successful photo session.
See ya
Jake
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