I’m finding this is either really easy to do, or amazingly difficult.  How busy I am at work also plays a huge part in my output (obviously), and today was a very bad day at work.

I got home pretty late at night without any idea of what I was going to upload.  Abi had her gymnastics class earlier in the day and still had her leotard on and kindly offered to pose for me.  She rushed upstairs to wash her hair while I set up lights.

This was a three light shot, soft box in the front providing fill, gridded spot on her face as the key and a hair light behind.  Being only 8 Abi is not the best at keeping still and kept adopting “poses” for the images.  The shot below was my favorite facial expression but she did move slightly to her left (camera right) so you can see more of the hair light than planned.

That said I’m still happy with the portrait and need to thank her as she saved my bacon – day three and struggling (isn’t this what all New Year Resolutions are like?)

For Christmas Lisa got me some little camera’s that you stick on your monitor.  They look really realistic so I set up a little camera shoot for the Halo dudes: