Studio & Using Natural Light Portrait Practice

 Hello team!

Today I will show you my own practise with different style of portrait photography which I have done this week in class practise. First of all, we had two practise with a Studio and Natural light.

There is result witch I got from Natural Light Portrait :

Here we were outside, so I had use ISO 200 and general light setting for outdoors shooting.

We have really beautiful houses around and I liked the composition of the colours, first of all I wanted to show the face clearly in the portrait photo and it was perfectly combined with Valeria's clothes and the general black background of the first photo. 

F 8, 1/1.3, ISO 200, -1.3 exposure

I really like the look in the eyes in this photo and the way the wind helps to make the picture more interesting by blowing the hair around. 

F 4.5, 1/250, ISO 200, -0.7 exposure

I wanted to add an enigma to the photos to make it deeper and more interesting. Here we decided to experiment and give the viewer the feeling that the model saw something in the window and wanted to look at it, but we can only guess what it is.

F 5.6, 1/300, ISO 300, 0.3 exposure

On my last natural picture I wanted to show more cold and private person, the model looks directly in front of her, not at the camera, and hides herself with a blazer and arms, I think it looks good, especially in combination with the colours of the house in the background.

Next one is photo from my portrait studio practise:

To be honest, I always had difficulties with studio lighting, and this time is not exception, I was started from ISO 400, but result was too blurred and dark, so I have changed some sitings to ISO 200, and result was much more better.

As for the rest of the light settings, I had to take a few not-so-great shots to understand how to set up the camera. As a result, I got the pictures like this:

F 5.6, 1/4, ISO 200, -0.7 exposure

This shot is not bad, but I still don't have enough light on it and I see it as rather cold. Although I like the model's pose and the way she looks directly into the camera, I would probably work on this shot in Lightroom to improve it.

F 5.6, 1/2, ISO 100, -0.3 exposure

This shot was to light from one side and of less of quality, but it still looks good and I chose it because I like the model's position and I realise that I needed to work a little bit with the light settings.

F 4.5, 1/4, ISO 200, -0.3 exposure

This shot has become my favourite, it shows a very clear figure and only a completely dark background, as if there is nothing behind it at all and it looks mysteriously beautiful. Also in the centre you can clearly see the model with a good position.

In conclusion of these two shoots, I have to say that I can see my weaknesses in studio photography and it is really harder for me than it is outside. I want to deepen my knowledge of camera setup and working with light, because it's incredibly interesting.