March 9, 2008
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off camera lighting would be helpful::
had a bit of 'fun' trying to mimic off camera lighting as much as possible-
my 'makeshift' umbrella; aka. the flash pointed at a piece of paper on an easel
i also tried to use the side wall/blinds as an umbrella/reflector/what-not and my on-camera as a fill by foofing that off the ceiling/wall/corners to try to hide the 'on-camera' flash look as much as possible.it was pretty uncomfortable using strobes; if anyone comments; when you shoot with strobes- do you do shoots with most of the room lights off? my mentality was to do that, so that the only light's i'd have in the image were my strobes (to try to control the direction of light as much as possible).
does that make sense? or should i just keep my lights on. loli didn't have a way to remotely trigger my flash either so i had to keep one of my strobes on-camera
equip for this shoot:
Canon 5D
50mm f/1.4
Canon 430EX (off-camera)
Canon 580EX (on-camera)
blow-dryer for 'wind effect' [which didn't work out at all. lol]
-duncan
Comments (9)
OMGOODNESS! she's soooo photogenic!!
beautiful =)
hmm.
maybe use your on-camera more direct, but diffused and FV stopped down to low
like pic #2 - too much shadow in the face, gotta fill that
but then, in BW, any lighting looks good
where are my MODELING PICTURES
it doesn't really matter if the room lights are on or not. if you have a fast enough shutter only the strobes would be picked up.
to control how bright your strobes are you can either set them in Manual mode and power them down which gives you faster recycle time also.or leave strobes as they are and adjust your fstop.
Shutter speed controls the amount of ambient, aperture controls the amount of flash
just keep that in mind and give it a try.
if you want a more high key picture all you need is one flash on your camera and bounce it off the ceiling. play with your aperture to get the effect you want.
also direct light isn't always that bad you can get some neat shadows on the face that can acentuate a models face
. i don't have any digital examples really cause all my studio work for class is on film but..this websites gives you the concept of lighting
http://www.studiolighting.net/portrait-lighting-styles/
they pictures look ghetto and stuff ( cause the photographers are bleh) but take their concepts and give them your own style
happy shooting hope that sorta helps
It doesn't matter how "bad" the light setup looks like, lighting is lighting as long as it works, right?
The shots came out nicely, though I think you need to brighten a few of them because of the shadows. If you're using strobes, it doesn't matter if the room lights are on as long if your shutter speed is high. The flash from the strobe is much more powerful than room lights.
lol yeah that hair dryer definitely failed =P
natural lighting ftw
OooO how was it shooting your significant other?
This past weekend was fun fun fun by the way. Thanks bro!