Headshot 4

Please take a look at this folder and let me know what you think.

This was my first true attempt to photograph at the beach and I had

a really hard time getting ligth seperation. It was mostly overcast

and I was shoot with a D100 which only allows you to sync with Flash

up to 160. I was either over exposing her or the background. I tried

everything I know and I just couldn't get what I wanted. Any advice

on this would be great, cause I have another shoot at the beach next

weekend. I used my Nikon D100 with my 80-200 2.8 lens, polarizer,

and my SB800 flash. Thank you for your advice.

 

David Johnson

I think the only problem here is the time of day you chose to shoot. It seems that the lighting, and correct me if I'm wrong, is about midday, or perhaps early afternoon.

 

An early morning shoot, when the quality of light is better would have greatly increased the aesthetics of the shot.

 

Barring that of course, an assistant holding a screen to even the light source out would have gone a long way. You could also use a longer lens to eliminate the overexposure problem.. just be sure to use the histogram and meter on the parts indicated as being overexposed.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Cheers!

This shoot was done at 8am and I used a light meter. The D100 does not give you a histogram reading and I used a 80-200mm lens at 200. Let me know, what else I can do other than having an assistant. Thanks...

I am wondering if she is back lit, and if you metered on her face (which may be in the shadow). That would cause this type of exposure... other than that, I am tapped... good luck ;-)

Don't get me wrong. I like how these photos came out, but as I said, I wanted something different. On the swimsuit shots of her in the water, I wanted to background to be seen and exposed, but for some odd reason I couldn't get that. This is the set up. It was 8am in the Outer Banks of NC and the sun was directly behind her, but it was over cast and it seemed that I got more of a softbox light than anything. I could not for the life of me, gat seperation of light. I metered her face and I metered the background. Trying to expose the background she would be under exposed. Tried to expose her and the background would be blown out. Any comment would be great.

 

David Johnson

I think you got the best shot you could get given the conditions.

 

I to like the shot and think it is well done.

 

 

Cheers!