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TECHNIQUE ASSESSMENT

SHOOT IN MANUAL

THE PORTRAITS in the morning session were all going to be lit by the large window light in Taylor’s living room – this would give the images a soft, gentle feel, especially as the lighting was very overcast on the day. Thanks to the total cloud coverage, the lighting was really consistent, so Taylor set her camera, as well as Jonathan’s, to Manual mode and entered in settings of 1/160 sec, an aperture of f/2.8 and an ISO of 800 to lock them off.

SHOOT RAW

Jonathan set his Canon EOS 760D to shoot Raw files, as these capture much more detail

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