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Model - Gemma Year Taken - April 2014 Camera - Sony A7R Lens - Carl Zeiss 85mm f/.4 Location - Studio

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When working in a studio, its almost always with high powered flash heads with random modifiers stuck to the front. This is great for styles of lighting and having the ability to selectively modify what parts of the image you wish lit.

However, this kind of light is almost always bright and dynamic and its very easy to see if the image has been falsely lit. Its very unusual to see a studio lit image appear natural. There is a way that this can done though. When shooting into light, the effect is a soft, natural looking diffused light which causes lower contrast and a more sunlit style of image. The light in question has to be in shot, so that the light directly hits the camera sensor. In the image here, the light is right of shot and aimed directly at me.

Gemma

Although he is still only 19, this is now the fourth time that I have worked with Gemma. Some time in the last few months, she has turned into a woman. When I worked with her before, especially the first time when she was only 17, she wasn't sexy and every image was laced with a cuteness that was hard to find in many other models. Yes, she is still cute, but she has suddenly developed a sexiness which has started to emerge from her images. She talks now, too. Before, you were lucky if you could get two words out of her during a 4 hour shoot. Now, she won't shut up!

In the blink of an eye, in the fire of a flash and the snap of a shutter, she has turned into a woman. She looks different, she holds herself different and she can model! Today, we did everything from boudoir, to portraiture and as you will se later; topless! She is confident in herself and Im sure this comes through in the images.