First time to use strobes outside for portrait

[colormaniac]

I used two strobes on a lawn for this baby. It's my first time. Very excited.
50D, 17-55mm. Unfortunately, the focus of the first picture is on the arms but not the face.

[chrisu002]

the seem a bit underexposed. The first one is not focused on the eyes as you said but the tilt is more distracting. on the second one you cut that rams of a t uncomfortabe spot. and tha light on the second one ist that great because the eyes are in the shadow. for that angle the light source should be lower.

[colormaniac]

the seem a bit underexposed. The first one is not focused on the eyes as you said but the tilt is more distracting. on the second one you cut that rams of a t uncomfortabe spot. and tha light on the second one ist that great because the eyes are in the shadow. for that angle the light source should be lower.
chrisu002, thanks for your C&C! I appreciate that. I have a few questions (for everybody).

1. Sometimes I find wedding pictures here are tilt. What is the rough guideline when it's OK to tilt?

2. Sometimes on my screen it doesn't look like underexposed. Can someone else also tell me if you find it underexposed?

These two problems are partly due to the baby moving around and I couldn't get a good shot. I'll certainly pay more attention to these. Again, thanks!

[chrisu002]

chrisu002, thanks for your C&C! I appreciate that. I have a few questions (for everybody).

1. Sometimes I find wedding pictures here are tilt. What is the rough guideline when it's OK to tilt?

2. Sometimes on my screen it doesn't look like underexposed. Can someone else also tell me if you find it underexposed?

These two problems are partly due to the baby moving around and I couldn't get a good shot. I'll certainly pay more attention to these. Again, thanks!


1 tilting is only used good when it has a purpose in the picture. allot of wedding photogs started doing that because it was in fashion and everyone was doing it. Like sheep they all follow each other.

2 Check you histagram and make shure you you calibrate your screen and on the camera make shure the lcd isn;t seet too bright.

[colormaniac]

2 Check you histagram and make shure you you calibrate your screen and on the camera make shure the lcd isn;t seet too bright.

How to calibrate the screen? Where can I find the histogram and how should I read it?

I'm using a Samsung HDTV as the screen. OK. I turned up the brightness there a little bit. But there seems no way calibrate.

[Photon Phil]

Wedding photogs = Sheep Nope.

Well, ok, the ones with a Rebel Xsi in green zone and a 18-200.


Nice.