79 times getting closer to Eva (series)

Other than with the tele-zoom it was much easier to take these photos  from closer with my preferred lens, the 16-35mm wide-angle-zoom.

Still  there was the problem of the high contrasts and to find some places in  the river bed that offered a nice, softer light without too deep shadows  that would make some interesting parts of the Catalan model disappear  completely in the dark.

Talking a little bit about more technical aspects. Colours are quite a challenge in a situation like the given here.

As  you can see in many of the photos of the previous series, of course the  leaves reflect a strong green tint. Green actually isn't a color that  favours skin: it can rapidly turn into an impression on unhealthy and  get very ugly.

On the other hand, when you correct the green,  where the sun shines through the "holes" in the forest it then looks  overly golden.

So we had to find places that had not too much  light reflected by the leaves and were not too much in the direct sun.  Then, thanks to the clouds that passed by from time to time, I profited  from the moments when a cloud began to appear and then again when it  disappeared, so that the light was quite bright, but a bit softened.

When  you shoot with manual settings, in such a situation you are constantly  turning the buttons on the camera: shutter speed, ISO, aperture... and  then the light changes again...

In other occasions I tried to use  the cameras automatic capacities, but that did never give satisfying  results. In the end the camera can do it right when it's also easy to do  it manually, but when it gets a bit challenging, the cameras  "intelligence" isn't enough.

At least not that of my camera  (here a Canon 5D Mk II). Aside of that: my mobile phone (a Samsung)  deals much better with critical light situations, I don't know why. But,  of course, it doesn't give the same quality like the camera, and there  are no possibilities to adjust white-balance, shutter speed or aperture  to the desired effects.

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