Today I want to share a set of portrait photographs that I took in my studio for a girl who was about to have her birthday, so these photos are part of her birthday photos. The reason I wanted to share these photos in color is that the girl has beautiful orange/copper hair that is spectacular.

This was the first photo I took of her while we were doing a light test and I kept it because it turned out very cool:

The idea for these photos was for them to be quite urban and to achieve that the girl brought a bandana and glasses. We tried different poses to have variety in the photos:

To take all these photos I used my CANON R8 camera with a 50mm lens at f/2.8 and for the lighting I used two lights; a speed lite flash with a 50 cm softbox as the main light at 45 degrees in front of the model, and for the secondary light I used an LED light panel behind the model to create a nice rim light.

Then the girl took off the bandana and we explored different poses just with the glasses:

I was guiding her with the poses since the girl wasn't a model and had no experience in previous photo sessions, but she was photogenic and very confident in front of the camera!

Then I told her let's do a photo where she played with her hair, the result was super cool, this is my favorite:

She wanted a photo from behind so we took this one

The theme of the photos was urban, so we couldn't miss some crouching photos. These turned out super cool and are my 2nd and 3rd favorite photos!

In the end, both the girl and I were super happy with the results of this photo session. I hope you like them as much as we do!