Ok, so I promised more pictures from my South African trip and when Xsightn promises, Xsightn delivers.

The picture below is from my “Strong ” Collection, I was looking for an edgy look, something slightly outside a normal look.

It was about 2 pm and the sun was out at full blast and normally you wouldn’t be able to make a good shot under the condition but many thanks to my Profoto gear, I was able to do just that.

Picture was taken with my amazing Nikon D700. (The best camera in the world by far and am not kidding)

Lens was my trusty Nikon 70-200 2.8 @ F20 ( Sometime back on Twitter, I complained about not using this lens much when I shoot Nigerian weddings lately, I wouldn’t venture on any location based photography session without this baby)

Shutter was set to a ridiculous 1/320s

Flash was Profoto 7b unit with 2400 battery pack fired at full power.

Am not the most amazing of “photoshop-ers” (if there’s even a word like that) but for this images I had to rely on a bit of photoshop to get out that strong feel, working mostly with blend modes, I was able to achieve the look I like. If you have ever attended one of my seminars or seen one of my albums, you will know when it comes to wedding photography am not really big on “too much photoshop”, but that’s for wedding photography, location and commercial photography are a totally different business.

My models for this look are Max and Nadia both models from Europe.

My name is Kayode Martins, I am a professional photographer based in Lagos Nigeria. Please feel free to send me an email at kayode@xsightn.com if you think you have an assignment for me.