egoldstein Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 For my Wife's Aunt's 80th birthday I was asked to take the pictures and used the opportunity to experiment with off camera set up for the first time. Using my D80 and 2 400 w/s (i think) strobes triggered optically by my SB600. One strobe set to 1/2 power the other to 1/4 power into silver umbrellas and metered to about f.8. Rental equipment is wonderful. How did I do?<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nathan_stiles Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Photo 1 looks underexposed, and the lighting flat. It looks like you set the lights 45^ to the subject, one on the left and one of the right... and your hotshoe would be fill? Little modeling, or none, from the lights effect the gentleman. The woman has a harder fall off to shadow, which means your key light was placed to far from her (or was too small). Photo 2 looks like the same set up, and the guys act like flags for you female subject and (accidentally) give her the best lighting =) The guy on the right of frame has really hard split lighting going on. All of them have their dark clothing underexposed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_clark___minnetonka_mi Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 Nice job. Keep working at it as practice makes better. What do you think of the gent on the right side on photo 2? Try to have more distance between the people and the backdrop, in this case the wall. Hope this helps you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles_Webster Posted July 8, 2008 Share Posted July 8, 2008 You need to put the fill light on axis with the camera so it can fill the shadows created by your 45deg off axis key light. The 2nd photo clearly shows the lack of fill, because the guys block the light to the woman. Check out the tutorials here http://super.nova.org/DPR/ He makes this kind of shot easy to get right every time. <Chas> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrstubbs Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 I like the first frame Eric. Lighting practice aside, you caught the moment...a lovely pic. A bit of playing with the exposure will give a nice print. F8 was a good choice. The shadows in the second made it a bit messy.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egoldstein Posted July 9, 2008 Author Share Posted July 9, 2008 Thanks for the advice. I'll keep up the practice. Hopefully the next ones will be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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