I realize I’m not doing well at keeping up with the 52 week photo challenge and am jumping around a lot. I’m trying my best, but life happens. I finally got the environmental portrait done, which is from a commercial shoot I did last week. I had the pleasure of photographing my long type reiki therapist, Maricela who owns Your Life Energy . I think Maricela is a beautiful person inside and out, and it was a pleasure to work with her and capture her gentile and loving spirit. If you are in the Arlington, VA area, I highly recommend Your Life Energy for reiki, massage therapy, and yoga. For this image I used a Canon 70D with my 18-200mm lens with a 400 ISO, and speed light mounted on a light stand with a shoot through umbrella set to right of the subject. Since this was an environmental portrait, I placed Maricela in front of a table in her treatment room that had the essential oils, crystals and lotions used during different treatments. ...
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