The light was just magical on this Sunday morning. I had scheduled a photo shoot with my long time collaborator and circus artist Jusztina Hermann.
The cherry blossoms were in full bloom, and with the raking sunlight, the Meadows were replete with photo opportunities.
My favourite kind of light is backlight, and I placed Jusztina and the cheery blossoms to have the sun at about 10 o’clock. I wanted to give the images a lifestyle vibe, namely without deep shadows. In order to achieve this, I used an off camera flash as a fill light. For a really shallow depth of field, I used my 85mm f/1.4.
The second set up involved the path under the cherry blossoms. I spent a good deal of time during the lockdown working on compositing tutorials, creating my versions of their images. I was dying to try some composites of my own. I had shown the images from these tutorials to Jusztina and she loved the idea of levitation. This was the perfect location to try it. For that photograph, I switched to my 80-400mm at the longest focal length. I wanted to compress the scene to a maximum. As the sunlight was only producing a rim light on the legs of Jusztina, I used a flash behind her camera right to produce a rim light over her entire body.
Back with the 85mm f/1.4, we got some final hoop shots.
For these three last images, I also use a flash camera right as a fill light.
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