A new client I met at a fashion mixer last month booked me for some work on the beach. I'm quite pleased with how the good ones came out. Yes, there were 60% bad ones. Well, 60% lost to (slightly) missed focus.

I went into this shoot wanting to do three things: shoot with a Zeiss (manual focus only) lens wide-open, shoot with the sunset on her back, and fill with a really powerful light.

Manual focus proved quite difficult when you've got sweat filling your eyes, a pentaprism screen that isn't made for manual focusing and a healing broken leg wanting to be soaked in ocean water instead of being subjected to strange positions not known since before the fracture. But nevermind all the challenges, we had a blast creating some different images while entertaining the locals' requests for iPhone pictures with "a famous model." Haha. Yeah.

But all in all, we had a blast. Including my friendly photo assistant, Samantha.