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Originally uploaded by sbalani

So most of the photos on this shoot ,have been with pretty standard lighting, considering the meter by meter space i had to work with, two canon flashes + pocket wizards and my first time using them together! After playing around with them for a bit, as you may have seen in previous shots, and an outfit change, i decided to play around a bit with the lights, get a bit more moody. I know its often said that in any portrait shoot you should always focus on the eyes, however as you can see here the eyes ar hardly lit at all. I had her overlit (extremely) and opted to not put a reflector or fill flash to kill off the shadows because i wanted to see what it would look like and voila! i got the image you are more or less looking at. Of course after retouching the light a bit and a couple of more shots and photoshop, htis is the final version. however I could have probably put a reflector around there somewehre and bounced some light back into the shadowy areas and still mantained the general mood of the picture.

Well as they say you always keep learning as a photographer, next time i try a similar lighting scenario ill remember to keep that in mind adn see if i cant replicate this mood with a little more light in the shadowy areas, however i find that the lack of light in the eyes gives it the darker tone that I at least seem to be picking up and enjoying in this image