Natalia Osipova in a Studio Session

I did this shoot with Natasha in a rehearsal studio at City Center last summer. The tech info is: F6.3, 250 sec, 0 exp comp,ISO 200, 82mm. The camera was a Nikon D800E with a 70-200 F2.8 lens at 82mm which produces a 37MB raw file. In the past I used a Hassleblad medium format with a leaf digital back, the setup was slow to work with. The new Nikon changed everything. The image has an enormous amount of detail and you could blow it up and put it on the side of a building. The lighting is a single small soft box up and to the left. No need to make things complicated, I keep it simple and get dramatic results. You can light almost anything with a single source.