Struggled My Ass Off

Yesterday was my first Model Photoshoot in just over a year. I shot Rosa back in the later part of July 2015. Shortly after getting my Full Framed Sexiness that is the D750.

And I’ll be honest with you… I struggled. I struggled my fucking ass off. The model was good. She knew how to pose and she knew what she was doing. Most definitely a very professional and popular model off of PurplePort.

My 4 main issues were this:

1: The location we shot in, was the models bedroom. Which was perfectly fine as she had a wicked iron made looking bed situation going on, but the room was a little cramped at times. (Bare in mind that a small location isn’t really a problem most time the time, I’m just found it a little off putting for my first shoot back)

2: New light modifiers. Since selling all my studio lighting and studio gear to help fund our travels, I’ve only been left with one Nikon SB 700 Speedlight. I love it. The thing works. Get’s the job done. But I had a new 55˚ 20cm Reflector Dish which I had never worked with before. Along with the 30˚ Honeycomb grid, I just wasn’t getting the results I was hoping for. Should really invest more in a Snoot.

3: I’m running some cheap eBay Yongnuo Triggers and Receivers. These are great and do what they say on the tin, however, they don’t support High Speed Sync. So should I choose a Shutter Speed Higher than 1/250 (even that sometimes caused issues) I was left with a black line across the image, where the Shutter was quicker than the flash. Along with this issue, was the fact that the Triggers/Receivers do not relay Nikons TTL (Through The Lens) information. Which means any changes to the Flash had to be done manually, at the flash. A Real Pain In The Ass.

4: My amazing 50mm f 1.8 prime lens was hunting. It was struggling to find a focus point at times, which was incredibly frustrating.

But put all those things aside, it was a good day. I felt myself falling back into the swing of things. Finding my old groove or routine. Even though I didn’t get half the amount of images I was hoping to get, it did still put a few things into perspective for my next shoot.

The model was friendly and chatty. She knew how to pose and what sort of looks I was after. Pretty much would shoot with her again.

Currently sorted through the images in Lightroom and have deleted almost half of the shots from the 4 hour shoot. I don’t see the point in keeping photos that you MIGHT use someday. I’d rather have the storage space, especially since I run from a Macbook Pro laptop.

It’s a habit I’ve gotten used too while travelling around doing landscape and travel photography… There are Keepers and Deleters. Not many Inbetweeners. Just delete those that you don’t feel make the cut.