Portrait of Lucía Falcón Palomar, translator and interpreter for the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York, for the Fall 2019 issue of Middlebury Magazine.
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Falcón has a masters in translation and interpretation from the Middlebury Institute along with a law degree from a Mexican university. She feels her post at the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor enables her to combine her two loves: languages and the law.
Tear sheet of the story:
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Production
I used a Canon EOS R to photograph Lucia. Lensing bounced between a 35mm f/1.4 and a 50mm f/1.2 prime and each was kept fairly wide open to throw the background out of focus. Lighting was kept simple with a Profoto B10 Plus in a Profoto Softlight Beauty Dish with a ⅓-stop fabric diffuser as key and the ambient as fill.
Nice pic, Jon! I like the separation of the subject from the background, and the subtle lighting.
Thanks Mike! I love adding light and mixing it in with the ambient in a subtle way.