This weekend, we met up with another local photographer, Erica Hayes, for a fun, creative shoot where we were able to learn from each other. She brought the model, and we brought the off camera lighting. We met up in downtown Shreveport because we knew there would be some cool locations to use. As we’ve mentioned before, we’re really digging the dramatic look we can achieve with off camera lighting. And, because it’s important to us to keep improving our photography skills, we thought a practice session just for us was a great idea! Here are some of our favorites…

First up is an image using natural light.

Using off camera lighting, we were able to achieve these…

We moved over a little from the first spot to practice getting a bright blue sky!

The next few were also shot using natural light…

Then, of course, we switched to off camera lighting for a more dramatic look!

With these last two images, we had some fun creating light trails in our pictures. No lights were added in post-processing. While we added a little color pop to these images, this is basically what it looked light straight out of the camera.

We’re really excited to continue growing our skills in this area. We’re even more excited to think about the awesome ways we can use these skills to create unique portrait sessions for seniors and unique bride and groom portraits! Brittnee, thanks for being a fabulous model! You are absolutely stunning! Erica, we always have a blast meeting up with you!