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Sultry Siri

5DMKII, 85mm f/1.8 lens, 1/60, f/1.8, ISO 100.

Model: Siri
MUA: Mika
Assistant: Ryland
Photographer: Lisa Bettany (find me on Twitter)

Another shot from my heashot shoot in the rain with Siri.

I had picked 3 different locations for my shoot with Siri, but my plans were foiled by a summer rainstorm. The light was quickly disappearing and there was only one covered spot in my location, so I had to make one kinda dull grey metallic background work for two different looks.

The only thing I could do was change the lighting. In this shot, I just used one strobe (580EX) shot through an umbrella really close to her face to create a nice soft, even light. I took away the second hair light strobe and used a really shallow DOF to make her hair almost disappear into the background. I wanted to the shot to be about her face and her eyes and her gorgeous skin.

I also love Siri's expression in this. She was so easy to direct and followed my strange direction cues really well. i think I told her to look mysterious, yet sexy, but secretive. Yeah... Not the best direction in the world, but she made it work :D

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Uploaded on Jul 2, 2009

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