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S2 #9 - Editorial portraiture w/ Sophia Spring

The Exposed Negative

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How to Be a Better Photographer

Before a shoot, I kind of let myself get really calm and leave that timeless at home. And then on the shoot itself, you know, for most of my shoots, ideally I would use a combination of ambiance and flash. The light modifiers I most like using are octoboxes and increasingly now umbrellas. When I'm shooting, I'll shoot tethered, which I was really resistant to for many years because it's incredibly exposing - there's just no escaping it. But actually what that has forced me to do is become a better photographer as I don't start shooting until I have 100% got it.

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