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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.<\/p>\n

The cherry blossoms were in full bloom, and with the raking sunlight, the Meadows were replete with photo opportunities.<\/p>\n

My favourite kind of light is backlight, and I placed Jusztina and the cheery blossoms to have the sun at about 10 o\u2019clock. 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. \u00a0For a really shallow depth of field, I used my 85mm f\/1.4.<\/p>\n

\"Jusztina
We started with some poses. First, balancing six hoops.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jusztina
The fill light is to camera right as Jusztina balances a single hoop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jusztina
We then tried some action shots.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jusztina
I missed a lot of shots before I got this one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jusztina
Some juggling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jusztina
Got back to posing for a while. My second favourite shot of the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jusztina
Final action shot for the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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 \u00a0light on the legs of Jusztina, I used a flash behind her camera right to produce a rim light over her entire body.<\/p>\n

\"Levitatiing
Both Jusztina and I were delighted with the result. My favourite image of the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Back with the 85mm f\/1.4, we got some final hoop shots.<\/p>\n

\"Jusztina
Same pose as the first photograph, but on the path.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jusztina
The same pose looks great from behind as well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jusztina
This called for a horizontal composition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For these three last images, I also use a flash camera right as a fill light.<\/p>\n

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