My daughter and I had so much fun with this week’s challenge: Off Camera Flash Daytime Portrait. I like to photograph her so frequently that she’s really sick of it so I was excited that she was an eager and willing participant. I think this is due in part to the fact that we were trying to recreate a photograph of her taken 5 years ago. Her teacher hosted an end of the school year class pirate party! All the kids got bandana’s and eye patches. After cupcakes, they all got bubbles and headed outside! In that moment, I was blessed to capture a side view picture of her blowing a stream of bubbles from a blue wand. It was perfect. Well, except for how dark it was. Here is our re-creation:
She also wanted to try a shot blowing glitter out of her hand toward the camera. So we headed out to a big field and stopped for bubbles and glitter along the way. The wind wasn’t very cooperative for the angle we needed to shoot for the sun/off camera flash to work together while blowing bubbles. Still, we managed to snag a good one that I like; just not enough to use it as my challenge entry. And here is the favorite glitter shot, even though the flash didn’t fire 🙁
I also took this chance to practice some of the posing techniques I learned from Lindsey Adler a couple weeks ago on CreativeLIVE. She really got into it! For the shot I am using as my challenge entry I also used a gold reflector (interestingly, on the same side as the off camera flash). The flash was a bit harsh, even though I dialed it down a bit, so since I have one I pulled out the shoot through umbrella and used it, too! I hope you like it.
