Michelle

Michelle, originally uploaded by Artistic Endeavors.

Taken using an AlienBee800 and a small shoot through umbrella. Straining the battery at full power because I'm in a battle to achieve a balanced exposure over powering the sun. It was getting fairly bright in the sky, so this was closer to the end of the sunrise shoot that morning. The interesting thing about this was....I moved the light very little...as long as I always placed the model in the same spot (they can wander if you're not watching them closely). Put the light so I'm not shooting dead on, and made sure I got the proper exposure on her face, not allowing her to become a sillouhuette. I was fairly golden. The sunlight causing the highlight in her hair was just icing on the cake.