High-End Fashion Photoshoot with Anastasia Butrim
Anastasia was, so far, the only foreign friend who had kept her promise to contact me when she was coming over to Singapore. I had lost count of the figure of empty promises I had received from others.
Her height and figure made her a good model. She was natural in front of the camera and could easily present her movements and expression elegantly.
As she was very busy with her stuff, we did not get to discuss many things together. I was very impressed by her effort to show me numerous of her new clothes before she came over. Fortunately, she had a great fashion sense and brought along some very stylish-looking outfits. Most of all, she was able to do her makeup.
This was the first set of the shoot I did with Anastasia for the day.
Anastasia loved the cityscape of Singapore. She suggested doing a shoot at Raffles' Place area but I did not want the photos to be filled with office workers in the background unless I was looking at a certain theme that required the photobomb. She was very easygoing and allowed me to call the shot, but I felt nice people should be rewarded. Taking into account the day, time, the direction of the sun and the location of the shoot, I chose Marina bay Sands, which could also show the grand office buildings of Singapore at the back to satisfy her.
Apart from the fact that we had only finalised the shoot a few hours before the shoot, it was a pity that she did not stay near and thus we could not start the shoot even earlier to grab better lighting. The weather was uncontrollable. Instead of a beautiful blue and white sky, I got some dramatic grey clouds instead, which was excellent as well. The biggest problem I faced was the threatening wind, while was playing a bowling game, using my light stand as one of the pins.
For this looks, instead of playing with the bokeh effect like most of my outdoor portrait shoots, I had included the scenery as background. Playing with a smaller focal length and aperture setting did make me worried at first but I was glad the products turned out to be beautiful. Anastasia was so good that I needed not to worry about her posing and expression, and thus could only concentrate on my camera setting and composition, while waiting to catch my umbrella from falling.
To conclude, Anastasia was a gifted model. She was able to help me get many good shots within a very short frame of time. Apart from being humble, she was also someone independent and she refused to allow me to even treat her to a bun while travelling to the second location.
Featuring ↬ Anastasia ButrimHairstylist ↬ -Makeup Artist (MUA) ↬ Anastasia Butrim
Wardrobe ↬ Anastasia Butrim
Camera ↬ Canon 6DLens ↬ Canon 24-70mm F2.8 IILighting ↬ Canon 600 EX-RT
Place ↬ Marina Bay Sands (MBS)Date ↬ Year 2014
Photo Editing type ↬ Advanced
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