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August 2019
While the venue in which I would shoot would change, due to me renting out different studios, my experience in studio portrait photography would remain steady and gradually improve over time. Each new session, I come ready with different approaches to how I would want to tackle a new project. Usually it involves trying new lighting schemes, playing around with how I would want to frame the subject, or even different concepts for the shoot, which I definitely would dabble in down the road.
For this shoot, I had reached out to Jaryn and we had met at the studio, and I knew that the challenge would be to familiarize myself with the studio itself and what lighting was available to me. As I rent a new studio, depending on the where the model is located (since I’d rather that they don’t have to travel out of consideration for their time, and I don’t mind the drive anyways), usually these places are not one-to-one in what they offer to the folks that book the space. Sometimes, one studio would offer a wide arrange of backdrops and lighting equipment for an affordable price, other times, you’d have a great space with limited equipment. Fortunately, the place we had secured was well equipped with lighting, despite the size being fairly small, and with only a window to provide proper ventilation during the mid-August day.
With this shoot, I wanted to approach it with having another shot at doing my take for an H&M styled session, in which the lighting would be kept to a simple position, while providing some nice dramatic shadows without obscuring the details in the outfit itself. Jaryn was great to work with as we were both relatively new to the portrait photography world and so communicating was very easy as we both understood the foundation of the theme of the shoot. She brought a lot of dynamic poses, especially in the first three photos below, and it really allowed a lot more flexibility in experimenting with the framing of the shots as her foot rests near the border in one image, and a hand reaching towards the top of another. What drew me to the marketing campaigns of these clothing companies is how they showed a lot of dynamic poses while also demonstrating the versatility of the clothing as well.