“Hot Salsa”

"Hot Salsa"
©David A. Ziser

There is a bit of a story behind this image. On our last night in Mexico, we headed to Morgan's one of the very nice restaurants in San Jose del Cabo. We had a great dinner, but me - I had the Canon 5D Mark II in tow. I don't think Kent got the chance to use the camera at all last week - and I had some ideas in mind. I decided to take portraits of each of us around the restaurant. Don't get me wrong - these were going to be really fast portraits - I didn't want to disturb the other diners. I had to find the space, hit the composition, and light the subjects, which just happened to be the four of us individually, and be done quickly, quietly and very discreetly. This is one of those portraits. It's a portrait of Sarah sitting in the stairwell leading to the second floor of the restaurant. It was really dark here and I had to add auxillary lighting to illuminate Sarah. The additional lighting was from a very small pocket flash light I had with me which Kent held off camera lighting from the left of the scene. Soft, easy believable position also add to what I think is a great portrait of Sarah. Look at the leading lines within the composition - all lines lead to our beautiful subject. The super warm tonalities just add a definite glow and warm feeling to the final result. Camera specs; Canon 5D Mark II fitted with 24-105 IS lens at 35mm, F4.0 @ 1/8 second, ISO 5000. Enjoy! -David