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FREEZE
21st of October 2007 (Sun), 22:09
Whenever i get a picture like this that i doen't thonk is to bad I look at it and the first thing i probably will hear when i post it is the lighting is to flat. So this was taken with one flash and a home made diffuser off and above the camera. I personaly don't like to many shadows but some so long as the detail is there are okay. My problem is if i set the flas up so that i get some shadows the pic is to dark in some areas.Any suggestions please.
p3photogal
21st of October 2007 (Sun), 22:50
the thing that bothers me the most is that her hand looks abnormally angled. Like...OUGH angled! haha. If she had her hand more of a fist to lean on, or toward the side of her fance straight up and down it would have been more natural. I think that if you add some contrast it would help a lot, but the shadow under her chin is pretty harsh. maybe reangle your diffuser?
sswanson
21st of October 2007 (Sun), 22:57
... My problem is if i set the flas up so that i get some shadows the pic is to dark in some areas.Any suggestions please.

Sounds like you are defining a shadow to me! It might help you to take a willing subject or a mannequin and simply move a continuous light or two around it, watching how the light changes the way you see the thing. Diffuse light aimed straight at the subject results in images like the one you have above, while light from two sources at 45-degrees right and left results in what is commonly called 'beauty lighting' whereas light coming predominantly from one side and above the eye level results in rembrandt lighting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt_lighting).

Lots of lighting options exist, and once you understand what the light is doing, you will then be able to begin to have the option of choosing the effect you are aiming for, and then using what you have to create that look. A great place to start is with the good old standard described here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-point_lighting)

Make sense (and perhaps even help)?
FREEZE
21st of October 2007 (Sun), 23:09
Thank you for your answers i'll practise somemore and maybe look at getting another flash.