I always take some time to photograph a model when they are booked for one of my concept shoots. I aim to create images that they may be able to use within their portfolio. It was the same with Sara after we had finished the monsoon girl shoot.

Sarah changed out of her wet clothes. We then headed across the road to the wharf in Evans Bay. There, we took a series of images. These images tried to reflect different moods.

All the images were shot using natural light and as such I had the camera in Aperture Priority. I set f5 so that I would still have a reasonable depth of field on Sara. This setting allowed the background to fall out of focus.

They were all shot with my 70-200mm f2.8 lens on my Nikon D600. The individual settings are shown against each image.

Towards the end of our session I swapped lenses to my Lensbaby Composer. This is a totally manual lens that creates a very narrow area of focus within the image. It creates great results but it is quite tricky to work with.

When I delivered the photos to Sara, she was really pleased with them. That is the ultimate time of any model shoot.

Looking back now I realise that the images could have done with a little lift from flash.