When my wife got her new haircut recently, she wanted me to take her picture. I took one with her phone, then decided to get my camera to take a “proper” one. It just so happened that I had the 50mm lens of my Pentax adapted to my G1, so I quickly grabbed the flash. I wanted some shallow d-o-f, so I set the aperture to f2.8. I dialed down the flash intensity and bounced it from the ceiling. This was the first and only shot I took. The b&w conversion was done manually in Lightroom, so as to emphasize the texture in her hair and eyes and the color of her lips, but have the skin in her face look as gentle and even as possible.
Jasmin’s beautiful, Felix, you lucky guy! And you took a very good photo of her as well. Oh, and tell her: nice haircut!
Thanks, Wolfgang – I’ll pass on the compliments!
I’m impressed that you got everything right with first shot using bounced flash.
Her new cut looks great.
Thanks, Thomas! I have to admit it was more luck than anything, but I’m getting more and more familiar with the flash.