Sorting out some of the files on my laptop I came across this again. A few years ago I booked onto an Art Photography course at the local university. I think that I need to do much more portrait work to get comfortable, but the most important feature is to find good models, which is one of the reasons I went on the course.
Actually the teaching on the course wasn't up to much, but this young lady was a superb model and I wish I'd had more time to work with her.
After the portrait work I took an interest in the light itself and got comfortable as I really got into my element ;-).
These were both taken with my Olympus e-510 camera using the 40-150mk II kit lens on ISO 1600 handheld as there was a lot of movement in the studio with more than one model. I used -1ev to keep the blacks dark and have increased contrast in post processing to get the clean final look I wanted
