When I found that Maria was preparing her first CD, I offered to do some pictures of her. I asked a common friend if he would let us use his studio, and he immediately agreed. We spent a Sunday afternoon on the studio trying several ideas, and this was one of the images that surfaced from that session, but it’s not going to be used on the CD.
In this picture, Maria is directly beneath a softbox placed high, and tilted at a 45 degree angle. A white reflector is being held by “Mr. Veneno” to fill in the shadows.
This was my first “commercial” assignment, and the first time I photographed on a studio. It was a hot moist Sunday in Lisbon, and I was in a lot of stress for trying to do a portrait of someone (and Maria was only slightly less than me) and I forgot to check the camera settings. Maybe because of this, every single exposure was made at ISO 400… I almost collapsed that night when I downloaded the pictures to my computer, but they’re good enough for a CD cover.
My thanks to Maria for posing for me, and to Ricardo and Margarida for letting us use their studio