My photographic club had an evening with Vitor the Greek God. He had volunteered to do this for us. I took along my camera which on this occassion was loaned from the College. It was a Canon EOS 400D with lens 18-55mm. Memory card was 2gb and the battery was fully charged. The room was set up with tables covered with white cloth and accessories including fruit, glass and a carafe of wine. Vitor himself was dressed in a large white sheet which was put on him like a toga. There were two backdrops throughout the evening: we started off with a white one and then moved to black half way through the session. There was lighting equipment including: a lamp with an umbrella reflector and a second lamp soft box.. The lamp to the left of Vitor had the umbrella reflector on it. There was also a wireless flash which trigged the flash and this was available to anyone wanting to use it. Initially, I took photographs simply using the on camera flash which produced dark results. Then I was introduced to the wireless flash! My camera settings were as follows for the picture above: ISO 100; shutter speed 1/125; aperture F8; focal length 41mm. I found it hard to build a rapport with Vitor as I'm not used to photographing strangers and I know i wasn't the only one as he actually said to everyone he didn't bite and we could get closer!. Towards the end of the session I did feel more at ease with him but I think it's supposed to be the other way around !
Things I learnt during this photo session: not to stand in front of flash, not to shoot from the side of the subject as I got items other than the shoot itself, be careful of the wires trailing on the floor.
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