Hudson Valley Fashion Photographer { Kelly Fall Shoot }

August 16th 2021

Wow winter sure did come out of nowhere. Man I wish I would have had just a bit more time with all these wonderful fall colors. I was such a gorgeous fall. I think that fall has to be one of my favorite seasons warm, great colors, never too hot, great lighting. I mean honestly what more could you ask for.

I tell you what…. a killer model. I haven’t had much of a chance to do any model / fashion / beauty photography lately. I’ve been busy with life. Working on a flagstone patio. Enjoying s

ummer time grilling. But after a really enjoyable summer I decided to jump back into my photography. I really didn’t do much photography this summer. Frankly I didn’t feel very inspired. But after taking a nice long break I felt wildly inspired and really excited to shoot again. Something I haven’t felt in months.

So I got in touch with a model on model mayhem, and we decided to get a shoot pulled together. We hit up a location right around my house, and then we headed out to some more nature style places. Kelly was fantastic, totally comfortable, and came up with a ton of poses all on her own. It felt more like I was creating art, rather than having to work for it. I love it when a model brings all kinds of poses to the table. I don’t think I ever saw the same thing from Kelly twice and that was in 2 hours of shooting. It’s so difficult to find a good model that you don’t have to constantly be correcting or giving ideas to. Kelly had a ton of ideas, and was really helpful in the creative process.

After a rough start, with me somehow locking my focus points (worst button on a DSLR EVER I looked like I had no idea what I was doing….. smooth dave real smooth). Things picked up quickly and we got a ton of great stuff.

These 2 shots were actually from a spontaneous location. We hadn’t planned on going here, but we drove by and saw this awesome tree hanging out with killer light, and I just had to shoot there. I’m pretty sure this is where I got attacked by ants. Which has turned out to be a real blast!… kidding. I’ve been scratching at my legs and ankles all week. Not. Fun.

I had a ton of fun with this location, I had some killer light from the sun, and I offset that with a nice big umbrella and an SB-600. With my new triggers I could get crazy sync speed, which meant I could get some great DOF. I loved shootnig with my 85mm here.

This was our last location and we got some great stuff here. As a matter of fact we got so much great stuff I really wish I would have gotten Kelly to do a wardrobe change here, because I could have put a few more looks here into this location. This shot is by far one of my favorite shots I’ve ever taken. I was offsetting the sun with a beauty dish here, and got some great contrast because of it. I really liked the way that the light managed to fall on Kelly in these shots.

Hope you like em.

And a huge thanks to Kelly!

-Dave

Hudson Valley Fashion Photographer { Kelly Fall Shoot }

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