Concepts with Krystal

Been a while since I've taken any portraits. Even longer since they've been of people that I know. This is Krystal. She's the person I play Dungeon Siege 2 with. We have sessions every Tuesday night and once we finish Dungeon Siege 2, we'll move onto other games.

Krystal is an illustrator and designer, and generally all around awesome human. She designed my revised logo for my photography business, and the fun thing about her is that even though she lives in my city, I would have never met her had it not been for the Steem blockchain and her uncle who told her to post things on there.

Unfortunately, she's lost her keys - but she's often busy making things in the real world for real people and getting real progress.

I drove to her house to take these photos so she'd have something on her website.

I lit these with a Godox Ad200 above and behind the camera, with a beauty dish, and another Godox AD200 on the dining room table with a dome modifier to help fill in the shadows.

I'm really happy with how the backdrop turned out. That was a fold out backdrop, velcroed onto a Venetian blind rod.

We did two images, and I was in and out in about an hour and a half or so, even if we spent a lot of time babbling about irrelevant things along the way.

Here is the other image:

I think I missed focus on this image, but for the purposes of an avatar / low res profile image, she's happy, and I'm happy. We live in a blurry world where our eyes don't work, or we can't envision our final result, that's exactly the reason why people like me capture people like Krystal in the way I do.

I'm pretty proud of the fact that I managed to get polarised light out of my flashes to prevent the requirement to use a polarising filter on my lens, and a void any reflection of light flashes in her glasses.

The camera had a bit of trouble focusing through the glasses on the eye, but in reality, I should have been less lazy and used single point auto focus instead eye-auto auto focus. it wasn't like we were walking down cat walks.

It was a purely fabricated scenario.

In other news, I freakin' love the light the AD200 pumps out. Its gorgeous.

Shot on my Nikon Z5 with the Nikon Z 85mm f / 1.8

I hope that I will be able to capture more portraits of people in the future!