Dancer Photo shoot

[GaryHeller]

Hey all,

I recently did a photo shoot for a Dancer that needed some images for a Middle Eastern CD cover and for other uses as well.
The entire shoot was done in a friends house that had room enough for a 10x20 ft muslin back drop and support system. I would have preffered paper but the rolls are not transport friendly.
The shoot was done with three Canon Speedlites in a wireless set up ( The ST-E2 triggering the others)
Just wanted to show what these little guys are capable of, and, if anyone has Ideas for improvements that would be great.
I liked this type of shoot and hope to do more. If so, I think I will need to invest in some real strobes and soft boxes. . . . and a studio lol

some post processing to tint the gray bg to a more magenta tone and also removing some of the un wanted wrinkles in the muslin (easier than steaming them out)

[tutumon]

Love the lighting. Very nice.

[JakPot]

her skin tones do not match in the 2 shots. be careful when you start adding & subtracting colors in post.

[GaryHeller]

Chris, thanks for the comment. I wanted a more dramatic lighting but wanted to play it safe so she could use it for many different things. I appreciate the comment and glad you feel the lighting works.

Jakpot, thanks for your reply. The skin tones look the same to me on my calibrated monitor. Only the bg was selected and slightly adjusted. I edited these in Lightroom. The great thing about LightRoom is that I can set the white balance and settings for one image and then "copy" and "paste" them to identical images of the same lighting to assure uniform results. I will go back and check to see that the skin tones are the same, although having them be absolutley identical is not of major importance to me.
Thanks for the comments and observations.

[JakPot]

Chris, thanks for the comment. I wanted a more dramatic lighting but wanted to play it safe so she could use it for many different things. I appreciate the comment and glad you feel the lighting works.

Jakpot, thanks for your reply. The skin tones look the same to me on my calibrated monitor. Only the bg was selected and slightly adjusted. I edited these in Lightroom. The great thing about LightRoom is that I can set the white balance and settings for one image and then "copy" and "paste" them to identical images of the same lighting to assure uniform results. I will go back and check to see that the skin tones are the same, although having them be absolutley identical is not of major importance to me.
Thanks for the comments and observations.

I'm also using a calibrated monitor. Her skin tones in #2 look much cooler than in #1. I love the first photo, but when I look at them together, they don't match.

Any others seeing the same thing as I am?

[dontshootmek]

# 2 does look a tad bit cooler than # 1 to me.

[GaryHeller]

In #2 there is a bit more exposure (light hitting her) on her left side (our right). My ratio between fill and main was a bit more exteme on that one. I believe it was about 1:6 as opposed to 1:2 for the first