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BASED IN Essex, Yemi loves nothing more than to take
portraits of his family, with his Canon EOS 5D Mark IV,
whenever he can to have memories of his kids as they
grow up. He owns flashguns and has experimented with
off-camera flash, as well as with natural light, but wanted
to be shown the ropes to understand studio lighting a
bit better. To help him out, we’ve arranged an online
photo shoot over conference call with pro Natasha J
Bella to demystify studio lighting setups.NAME:
YEMI AJIBOSO
CAMERA:
CANON EOS 5D MK IV
tudio portraiture is one of the many
core genres we like to cover in The
Apprentice, but as social distancing
was still in full effect when we wanted
to arrange such a shoot, we had to
think differently. We got in touch with
Natasha J Bella, a Canon pro and model who’s
recently started photo shoot sessions over the
popular video-conferencing app Zoom. This
enables her clients to take control of her
tethered Canon EOS 90D camera using Canon
EOS Utility 3 to take full control of the settings,
focus and shooting – all remotely.
We were eager to see how it all worked and
arranged for our reader Yemi, a keen portrait
photographer based in Essex, to be our
Apprentice for the day and take studio quality
shots of Natasha while being over 200 miles
away in Leeds. Natasha ran through aspects of
modelling, lighting and camera settings – here’s
how they got on throughout the day...S