My "Studio" Portrait.

[Nickcanada]

580 on camera 430 on stand with umbrella to camera right and panel reflector to camera left. All comments appreciated!!! and I do mean all comments! ;)

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k162/nickandaline/_MG_1867-Edit-1.jpg

[24Peter]

It's a nice shot Nick. Did you add the vignetting or is that the lens? Also, his shoulder is a little hot due to the light colored shirt and the flash camera right. Perhaps switch it to her side, though that will give you two lights camera left in portrait mode if you don't rotate the on-camera flash.

[Nickcanada]

I had the flash pointed straight up so I think I would be able to move the 430 to the left side and the reflector to the right.... or I could have just asked them to switch positions! haha.

I did add the vignette after. The background was a little lighter on the right side and it didn't look very nice so I thought I would add a little vignette.

I've got a bunch of group shots I'll post latter. 8 people with the set up I posted above... not ideal! lol. And not very willing subjects either! :mad:

[griptape]

All comments appreciated!!! and I do mean all comments! ;)




You smile like a pirate.

[DonSchap]

Eight people agreeing on anything? What do you think this is, Nick, the Mickey Mouse Club?

How do you get eight people to do anything together. Yes .. yes ... offer pizza at the end of it. :D

Or, like here in the U.S. ... you smother it with Universal Health Care ... and say, "That'll fix everything, folks!" Oops, it's "Super Tuesday", what can I say? The Democrats are scaring me, again. :o

Oh, back to the image ... since you don't have the "third flash" ;) ... ahh, it's just an idea. I'm not too keen on the direct camera flash idea. Options seemed too limiting. That's precisely why I bought the ST-E2, to get the flash off the camera and operate two slaves ... both mobile.

I think RichNY discovered the same thing. Anyway ... reflectors are great ... but more often than not, you still need to move the darn flash to get it looking just right. It found the training ideas in the books to be helpful, but actually using the devices to be quite a bit more instructive, lending itself to "practice makes perfect." Or have plenty of film on hand ... oops, silicon ... and batteries.

I think it was the constant nuisance of having to charge the "AA"s that finally got me to buy the studio strobes. They are also much simpler to co-ordinate when doing your lighting set up. That darn E-TTL mode just is the biggest PITA until you get used to it. Manual flash for me. Consistant and controlled by yours truly.

[chrisl]

Nice start Nick. Having studio strobes is much easier to use. The modelling light is a god send. The vigenetting and the camera left lighting looks off but you explained that already. Other than that I not fond of the pose and the chair sticking out but now I'm sounding like some of those critics. Yikes!