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Canon EOS 70D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens, 1/125 seconds @ f/2.8, ISO 320.

When this week’s photo challenge was Portrait of Your Love, there was only one person I could make a portrait of.

So here’s Melissa. I set this up in the front porch.My long lens is currently set up for football (ie, it has the extender on it), so it’s too slow for shooting a nice wide-open portrait. But 100mm isn’t too bad, so I grabbed the Macro. In terms of lighting, my first idea was to use my umbrella, but it’s as big as the front porch, so I wouldn’t be able to see past it. Not so useful when you’re trying to take a photo. Instead, I blu-tacked a gold-white reflector to the window and used that to bounce the flash onto her. You can see the effect this had most in the background – it’s the back of a real estate sign, so it’s pretty much white. I then made lots of inappropriate comments, and fired away. I went for a tight square crop, because it seemed to fit the challenge best in my opinion.

Also, there’s another part of these portrait challenges. Each one has to be of a different person. So that’s going to be interesting.