This week’s photo challenge was a portrait of someone else, specifically a head shot. I lucked out on this challenge because I actually had a cosplay photo shoot already set up due to the snow storm here in DC. Yes, I specifically scheduled a photo shoot because we were going to have a snowstorm. The photo shoot was with Life of Cosplay doing Anna from Frozen , thus the snow was fitting. This shoot was a combination of studio and outdoor pictures to take advantage of the snow. In studio, I shot with a gray backdrop, and two 430EX II speed lights of which one was bounced off an umbrella to light the whole area and the other was gridded to provide highlight. The ratio of flashes was 3 to 1 respectively. I used my standard 18-200mm lens at ISO 400, an aperture of F4.5, with shutter speed of 1/200s. For this particular photo was taken at a 40mm focal length. I then edited the photo in Lightroom and Photoshop as follow. I balanced the color, ma...
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