…from today’s shoot, here’s one image. A black and white image:

Why black and white? Because that enabled me to make the green really dark, and to make this beautiful young woman stand out very clearly against the dark background.

Don’t get me wrong, the colours were beautiful, because I used flashes (two of them, direct, manual, fired by Pocketwizard radio slaves).  So most of this session was made in colour.

But as you can see, the subject does not stand out against the background in quite the way that she did in the B&W picture:

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