This was a fun one! Nastya in Yellow 💛👀

The vibrant colors of the studio space were a perfect match for Nastya's youthful energy.

I guess I’m just shooting Ukrainian models now. 🤷‍♂️ Meet Nastya (IG: @aargus), model number three from the great Eastern European nation. (I’ve long considered this part of the world to have the most beautiful women, so I’m not complaining even slightly about this.) Traveling and modeling on her own, Nastya happened to pass through Hong Kong as a part of her southeast Asian tour, so I grabbed the yellow studio room for us and we got to work for a couple hours.

This was my first time in the yellow room, although I’ve had my eye on it for a while. The colors and décor are well chosen, and the spacious layout offered even more shooting opportunities than we could cover in just a couple hours. Nastya loved it immediately; I could see the creative ideas swimming around her head as she surveyed the space.

I inspected the light in various corners of the place while she did her hair and makeup. Like the black room that I shot Amelia in, this one is generously illuminated by a window spanning most of the length of one wall and softened with a movable sheer curtain. It was a sunny and cloudless day; dappled light streamed in even through the sheer material. The bright conditions were great news for my cameras’ sensors, though – I shot this entire session with my usual two OM-System bodies and the twin zooms with Glimmerglass (especially appropriate for the room’s golden tones); base ISO (200) was more than sufficient.

Nastya joined me at the L-shaped couch and launched into a full presentation of her arsenal of lingerie and saucy accoutrements. I’ve had enough experience with models now to realize that my usual style of only shooting nude sessions start to finish is apparently atypical; the expectation always seems to be starting with some coverings and working buffward. This makes a certain kind of sense, but from my perspective as a photographer, shooting in the opposite order (nude to clothed) saves me from having to clone out the lines and indentations that tight-fitting garments leave on the model’s skin.

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