November 2019
Beginner to intermediate
208 pages
4h 42m
English

BEHIND THE SCENES: Here, our subject is in a hotel ballroom in Venice, Italy. We rented a Carnival costume and mask, and shot with nothing but natural light, because the light in this second story ballroom was just beautiful.
CAMERA SETTINGS: The final image on the facing page is an environmental portrait where the setting is very important to the story you’re telling with your subject, so I’m using a very-wide-angle lens. This was shot with the widest full-frame lens they make—the Canon 11–14mm ultra-wide-angle lens—at 11mm. It’s. So. Wide! Because it’s a wide-angle lens, which tends to distort anything ...
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