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Full-frame Canon DSLRs

“I LOVE my 50-megapixel Canon EOS 5DS R,

it’s an amazing camera for portraiture and it’s

full-frame, which helps with beautiful

background blur when I use my prime lenses

at wide apertures,” says Rebecca. “The image

quality is incredible, with lovely natural

colours, and I have no problems with noisy

images when shooting at high ISOs in low

light. I also carry my old 5D Mark III as a

backup just in case, which was lucky as

Leanne’s 200D was having problems focusing

• so she borrowed my camera for the day.”

REBECCA’S COMMENT

It was great to show

Leanne how simple

compositions can be highly

effective. We utilized the

lovely blue paintwork on the

wall for our backdrop, and picked out a nice

yellow dress for Chantelle that contrasted

perfectly. The light levels were lower against

this wall as it was quite far from a large window.

This meant the light was diffused nicely for

softer light, but that also meant we needed to

increase our ISO to 500. We paired that with

a shutter speed of 1/125 sec for sharp shots

and used a wide aperture of f/2.

HOT

SHOT

Lens Sigma 85mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art

Exposure 1/400 sec, f/2, ISO

EXPERT INSIGHT

HAIR AND MAKE-UP

ARTIST ON DECK

“IF THE budget allows for it, I’ll use a good hair

and make-up artist to ensure the models look

their best before we star t shooting – this all

helps to capture nicer portraits and also

means a little less Photoshop work later on,”

says Rebecca. As Leanne is a make-up artist

who wants to be able to take bet ter por traits of

her clients for her portfolio, it meant she was

able to help our model improve her make-up

during the shoot.