Ryan Dionisio

I’m not sure if it’s that I don’t understand fashion or I’m just a rebel.  I shot this recently:

The main light is set to F/7.1.  The background is on a 20degree grid on the background.  There’s also a rim set behind the model and off to the left set to F/7.1.  Important lesson here.  Make sure you check your camera BEFORE you shoot.  I shot this entire session and couldn’t figure out why my exposure was all over the place.  I had shot the day before and bracketed my shots and forgot to turn it off.  Thank god for RAW.

Anyway back to the point.  But right now Fashion photography is all about akward looking poses and extreme amounts of make up.  Flip through any Flaunt, Zink, etc and you’ll see dark images of girls with lots of dark make up in really akward poses.

Which led me to this image.  Is it fashion?  You tell me.  I shot this the day after:

Shot outdoors using only a 5-in-1 reflector and the sun.   It’s F5.6 and 1/250th of a second on my Nikon 85mm 1.8 lens.