Shoot 6
This shoot was scheduled for early evening, as it was the only time we could all make it work. Since the light would be dropping fast, we had to move rather quickly.
I positioned Mom and her two daughters in a small field in a community park and used one Profoto B2 with an umbrella, placed on a light stand, to light them. I used the Air TTL Remote and shot in TTL mode, so the strobes picked the right exposure based on their distance to subject.
I arranged the three of them with Mom holding her youngest daughter while her oldest daughter hugged them from behind. I had to position the oldest daughter to lean over her sister’s knee so that she didn’t look like she was being stabbed in the chest with it. I did this by showing her myself how ...
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