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<blockquote data-quote="SiCkPuPPy" data-source="post: 772562" data-attributes="member: 33460"><p>Hi people,</p><p>I got an old D3100 that I mostly shoot pictures of cars and some nature shots.</p><p>But I work with a stunningly beautiful girl that yesterday came into my office, and since I just came in from shooting a car at work my photo-bag was laying open in the desk, and for a person totally ignorant about what gear is good gear she was impressed with my photo-gear and started to ask about what I was shooting.. </p><p>To make a long story short, it ended up with her asking if I by any chance wanted to shoot her.. I would be "the boss", she would dress up the way I asked her and she would take instructions on posing..</p><p></p><p>I was totally shocked by this, because I've been wanting for years to get to learn to shoot portraits, but I'm too shy to ask anyone to model for me since I got no experience in shooting portraits..</p><p>But I manned up and said yes, so now I'm panicing, looking at tutorials on youtube and reading up both in here and other places on how to get somewhat decent photos. I mean, with this beauty of a girl I must be a totally useless photographer if I cant get a couple good shots, but then again I would love it if it wasnt totally by luck.. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p></p><p>So, my hear.. And no, I dont have the money right now to upgrade, so I need to do the best out of the gear I allready have..</p><p></p><p>I actually got two D3100 bodies</p><p>Lenses: I got a 18-105mm kit-lens from Nikon, a superwide 10-20mm sigma(I have the gear at work so I cant remember the exact info on them now), and the one I'm counting on a Nikon 50mm f1.4 "nifty-fifty" without stabilizer.</p><p>I have no lighting equipment, so I'll need to shoot outside with natural light or somewhere inside with the lights that are installed there.</p><p></p><p>I got loads of questions, but I'm afraid that I'm not focusing on the right ones.. Therefore I'll just leave a few concrete questions, and I hope you guys can leave some tips and tricks for me to pick up on my first shoot.</p><p></p><p>* What should I ask her to wear? I would off course love her to wear some sexy(since she brought it up as an alternative), but I think I would wait for the second or maybe third shoot with that one.. Would jeans and a nice top be a nice starterpack? Or a dress? It's winter here, but I dont want her to wear thick clothes that hides her curves..</p><p>* What lens should I use? Should I try to be safe with the kit-lens or should I only use the 50mm? </p><p>* What aperture? I've seen some videos on youtube and I see that many shoots at lowest possible aperture, like 1,4 and 1,8. Is that a good rule of thumb, to shoot at the lowest possible aperture, and have the focus point on the eyes?</p><p>* Should I take the pictures from eye-hight or should I "go low"? Or maybe somewhere in between? I sort of like using a tripod when shooting nature and car shots, but I guess a tripod may restrict the movement and dynamic in the shoot, am I right?</p><p>* Any enviroments that would be a nice first-shoot location? I need to find somewhere we can be kind of private without people bombing the shots, and since I live in Norway and the winter is here(but not the snow yet), the nature is just sad lookin' right now.. But that may be a good contrast to the beautiful model..? </p><p></p><p>Finally, if you wondered.. Yes I'm stupidly in love with this girl, but I would never ever have the guts to ask her to do anything at all with me in a million years, she's not just in a higher league, she's just.. yeah.. So the fact that I managed to say yes to do this shoot is such an achievement for me, so I just need to think about the technicality about the shoot so I dont ruin the whole session.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SiCkPuPPy, post: 772562, member: 33460"] Hi people, I got an old D3100 that I mostly shoot pictures of cars and some nature shots. But I work with a stunningly beautiful girl that yesterday came into my office, and since I just came in from shooting a car at work my photo-bag was laying open in the desk, and for a person totally ignorant about what gear is good gear she was impressed with my photo-gear and started to ask about what I was shooting.. To make a long story short, it ended up with her asking if I by any chance wanted to shoot her.. I would be "the boss", she would dress up the way I asked her and she would take instructions on posing.. I was totally shocked by this, because I've been wanting for years to get to learn to shoot portraits, but I'm too shy to ask anyone to model for me since I got no experience in shooting portraits.. But I manned up and said yes, so now I'm panicing, looking at tutorials on youtube and reading up both in here and other places on how to get somewhat decent photos. I mean, with this beauty of a girl I must be a totally useless photographer if I cant get a couple good shots, but then again I would love it if it wasnt totally by luck.. :) So, my hear.. And no, I dont have the money right now to upgrade, so I need to do the best out of the gear I allready have.. I actually got two D3100 bodies Lenses: I got a 18-105mm kit-lens from Nikon, a superwide 10-20mm sigma(I have the gear at work so I cant remember the exact info on them now), and the one I'm counting on a Nikon 50mm f1.4 "nifty-fifty" without stabilizer. I have no lighting equipment, so I'll need to shoot outside with natural light or somewhere inside with the lights that are installed there. I got loads of questions, but I'm afraid that I'm not focusing on the right ones.. Therefore I'll just leave a few concrete questions, and I hope you guys can leave some tips and tricks for me to pick up on my first shoot. * What should I ask her to wear? I would off course love her to wear some sexy(since she brought it up as an alternative), but I think I would wait for the second or maybe third shoot with that one.. Would jeans and a nice top be a nice starterpack? Or a dress? It's winter here, but I dont want her to wear thick clothes that hides her curves.. * What lens should I use? Should I try to be safe with the kit-lens or should I only use the 50mm? * What aperture? I've seen some videos on youtube and I see that many shoots at lowest possible aperture, like 1,4 and 1,8. Is that a good rule of thumb, to shoot at the lowest possible aperture, and have the focus point on the eyes? * Should I take the pictures from eye-hight or should I "go low"? Or maybe somewhere in between? I sort of like using a tripod when shooting nature and car shots, but I guess a tripod may restrict the movement and dynamic in the shoot, am I right? * Any enviroments that would be a nice first-shoot location? I need to find somewhere we can be kind of private without people bombing the shots, and since I live in Norway and the winter is here(but not the snow yet), the nature is just sad lookin' right now.. But that may be a good contrast to the beautiful model..? Finally, if you wondered.. Yes I'm stupidly in love with this girl, but I would never ever have the guts to ask her to do anything at all with me in a million years, she's not just in a higher league, she's just.. yeah.. So the fact that I managed to say yes to do this shoot is such an achievement for me, so I just need to think about the technicality about the shoot so I dont ruin the whole session. [/QUOTE]
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