Assignment: Holiday Colors - “Autumn Breeze”
This beautiful lady was painted with a Nikon D3, using a Nikkor 105mm f/2.8D macro lens, with a 12mm extension tube.
Image solution:
focal length @ 105mm / exposure mode @ aperture priority / metering mode- combination of in camera matrix metering, and hand held spot meter, sampling two anchor points, for balanced light distribution. / 1/125sec. - f/22 / ISO @ 320 / exposure comp @ -0.7EV / white balance @ manual, custom profile using an expo disk for calibration / AF Mode @ manual / color space @ sRGB / tone comp @ +1 degree / hue adjustment @ +2 degrees / saturation factor @ +2 degrees / no speedlight; used a 24" soft box positioned from the top with an additional diffuser panel in front, and a 12” Micro Lite panel adjusted to ¼ lumen yield and correspond matrix diffuser grid, placed at the 3 o’clock position. / Support platform – tripod assist, with macro focusing rail / electronic trigger release /