Another non wedding photography post today, It seems my only willing models at the moment are bits of fruit and, well, models. This strange old figurine looked to be striking an interesting pose and as I had the camera out I thought I’d try and get an interesting shot.

Photograph of a Figurine and a shadow on a blue background

Photograph of a Figurine and a shadow on a blue background

I’m very big on coloured backdrops at the moment, I know for studio photography portraits the white out, high key look is still popular but as this was a hobby shot I thought I’d use a bit of colour. I have altered the colour in Lightroom, the original backdrop was a bit of a deep, dentist room green look which didn’t do the shot any favours. The great thing about the target slider on the HSL panel in lightroom is you can just set it to hue and click and drag the mouse left or right and it adjusts the hue you targeted, in this case I moved it over to blue and then adjusted the luminence slider up a little, I was going for a sky blue but this slightly darker tone seemed to work well.

Anyway back to the shot. I loved the pose of the figurine and it’s always good to try and remember interesting poses you’ve seen when working with real models just in case you need something a little different. Shadows on walls are generally avoided, especially sharp, harsh ones such as here, this is why it’s always a good idea to bounce a flash of a wall or ceiling as opposed to straight on flash but in this case I thought I’d include it. Having the flash just off to camera left also allowed me to position the shadow wherever I wanted, simply by moving the flash. Nothing else really to it, I used my ST-E2 to trigger my flash and the camera was set to 1/200, f/2, 50mm ISO100. Thanks for reading folks.