It’s been said many times that you should never use harsh light on a lady, but in this photo I sent a direct beam of light on my wife’s belly so that I could get a wide variety of shadows on the contours of her body. The net result is a shot I felt was very effective because you can really tell the three dimensional contours of her belly despite it being a side profile shot. In addition, the bright to dark nature of this photo causes your eye to go to the belly button and stay within the frame of the photo before your eyes drift and start exploring the darker areas. This color photo that was processed with Nik Silver Efex Pro to take away from the distraction that color adds to a shot of this nature.
This shot is best viewed on a calibrated monitor as there is a wide variety of grayscale tones giving it a tremendous depth that can’t be appreciated on an uncalibrated monitor.
This shot was taken at ISO 100 with a Canon 5D Mark II paired with a EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM lens at 150mm set to 1/50 @ f/11 using an off-camera Canon 580EX II standing on a Bogen Manfrotto 5001B nano black 6' compact light stand triggered by a Canon ST-E2 wireless flash transmitter.
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