My very best friend's girlfriend, Flavia, asked me to take some picture of her with the bags she produces at home. Of course, it was a pleasure to me.
We decided to meet us after work, as I thought the sunset time was certainly giving me a nice light to work with.
I also asked my sister to come with us, so that she could help me a bit, sure she would have enjoyed a lot.
While waiting for Flavia, I started taking some pictures of my sister.
I wanted to try some posing for later shooting with the bags, and my sister of course immediately found a nice way to do it!
We then went up to Monte dei Capuccini, a nice location on the hills facing Torino, and with a look to the West (yes, exactly... that's where the sun usually set).
When we arrived, the light was gorgeous, and we immediately started shooting.
I decided to use the still enough bright sun as a rim light from behind, and to overpower it with my flash, mounted behind an umbrella for a soft light, and positioned at 45 degrees of the model, camera left.
I didn't have to ask her to smile, as even her bag was doing the right thing.
Light changed pretty fast as sun went down, but it gave me time to take quite a few shot of her with this nice light condition.
As anyone taking pictures at sunset knows, anyway, the light changed faster than you can imagine, and, being my very first session of this kind, I had some difficulties in following it.
As sky was getting dark, I wanted to have a nice early evening background for her, with the magical addition of the Mole Antoneliana scraping the sky too.
Paying attention not to fall down, we took this shot of her with another of her very nice bags. The flash was positioned on camera right, through white umbrella, and with an amber filter on it to add some really warm tones to her skin. Also, I had someone holding a silver reflector on camera right for some filling.
As you can see, she was quite astonished we were still able to continue even with such a low light condition, but my flash was behaving really good! Not the same for me, as I lost many nice shots because of my yet too little experience....
Just before going back home, as light was getting now really too low, I took a shot of my assistant... oh, pardon... of my friend Ermanno.
He's really cool, don't you think? Using the same light set up I was using for earlier shots of Flavia, but with a much darker background now.
So, this is how my very first open air photo session went on.
We enjoyed ourself a lot, and I have to thank Ermanno and my sister for their help on that day!
I'm sure we'll organize again something together, maybe for some other "bag-session"?
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