Location portrait shoot with new camera

Having been out and tested the new camera a number of times, it was time to use it in anger. I went back to the country park and took along my trusty model. The main purpose of the shoot was to use natural light, but to get direction of light by using canopies of tress or buildings as a natural subtraction of the light over head and trying to maintain the catch lights in the eyes, to make them really look alive. It was not to capture the surrounding area and hence the reason most of them are 3/4 length at most.

The photo by the gate was achieved by having the model lit from behind and just pumping some light back into the face with a reflector to bring the eyes alive.

I do like B&W images.....