shaggymatt
12th of November 2008 (Wed), 09:15
It is next to impossible to get a 17 month old to stop for pictures. Especially when he has been sick and is withdrawing from Prednisone (I was on it a month ago so I know what it is like!). Yes. I should have cloned out the safety gate in the background, but this isn't a picture that is going to print, just learning lighting. I surely wasn't removing it as the woodstove temperature was reading around 500 degrees on the surface at this time!
I was just playing around with one light yesterday as I just received all of my gear. Initially I was testing out lighting one side to get rid of the eyeglasses flash on my daughter, and he passed through the "zone" I had setup.
This is one SB 24 camera left at 1/2 power shot into a silver umbrella, which since he was on the floor, was about five feet over him, angled down so that it was aimed at my daughter's face level of ~4 feet. There was some natural light coming in from the window camera right.
It is a bit overexposed in my opinion. I will add that I haven't bought anything yet to calibrate my monitor. It looks good on one of my work monitors, and overexposed on the other one so it could just be my monitor.
Didn't have to make many corrections to the image (thanks Sekonic - also a new toy). Perhaps I should have? I did add some vignetting as I felt that it softens the image a bit.
I was just playing around with one light yesterday as I just received all of my gear. Initially I was testing out lighting one side to get rid of the eyeglasses flash on my daughter, and he passed through the "zone" I had setup.
This is one SB 24 camera left at 1/2 power shot into a silver umbrella, which since he was on the floor, was about five feet over him, angled down so that it was aimed at my daughter's face level of ~4 feet. There was some natural light coming in from the window camera right.
It is a bit overexposed in my opinion. I will add that I haven't bought anything yet to calibrate my monitor. It looks good on one of my work monitors, and overexposed on the other one so it could just be my monitor.
Didn't have to make many corrections to the image (thanks Sekonic - also a new toy). Perhaps I should have? I did add some vignetting as I felt that it softens the image a bit.