This shot comes from my Elinchrom Ring Flash review. When I sent a copy of this to the model she put it on her Facebook page (with my permission) and put the caption “accident photo while adjusting my boobs”. The reality is that when I photograph models I try to give as little instruction as possible so that I can try to seize the moment and capture them in their natural pose. For some this means I have to give them some instruction and take some shots to make them feel comfortable, but the ones that are always my favorites are when I tell them I’m taking an exposure test shot or that I’m still dialing in my settings on my camera.
I’m always watching my model with the hope that I can catch them in a great natural pose. This is one of those shots, but honestly I wasn’t totally ready so I shot it from an angle that was a bit too low (hence the abrupt crop at the bottom). When the model looked up I told her to adjust herself again so I could try to get the shot again from a different angle (i.e., no crotch shot), but nothing beat the first shot for its natural feeling.
I contend that this wasn’t an accident, but rather it was not a planned or posed shot.My friend Eric Kool-Brown said it best when he said “There is no such thing as an accident, just varying levels of planning” – I couldn’t agree more!
This shot was taken with a Canon 5D Mark II using a 70-200mm lens set to 110mm for 1/100 sec at f/9. I used ISO 190 and the ring flash was powered by my quadra set to 5.0. Post-processing was quick and dirty using Photoshop, Lightroom, Color Efex 4 and Portraiture.
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