Please show your full body outdoor shots with flash/strobe with nice SOFT lighting -- Flash and Studio Lighting in photography-on-the.net forums

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Mar 14, 2011 08:57 | #1

Would like to see outdoor full body shots with flash/strobe showing nice soft lighting. Please tell about the modifier used.

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Mar 14, 2011 09:07 | #2

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Mar 14, 2011 09:08 | #3

Trust me... Nobody wants to see my full body

Here is a band shot I did a while back though. 580 to the right with a 60" umbrella. 480 lighting up the back wall.

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Mar 14, 2011 09:32 as a reply to @ Roroco's post | #4

Here's a completely different idea. Harsh lighting to accentuate the situation.

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Mar 14, 2011 09:35 as a reply to @ apersson850's post | #5

I think Bobby is specifically looking for full length work with soft lighting.

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Mar 14, 2011 10:36 | #7

Roroco wrote in post #12016577

Trust me... Nobody wants to see my full body

Here is a band shot I did a while back though. 580 to the right with a 60" umbrella. 480 lighting up the back wall.

Is it soft? To me looks more like hard.

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Mar 14, 2011 10:51 | #8

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43 inch shoot through. This image looks like total crap on my work monitor though so take it for what its worth.

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Mar 14, 2011 11:12 as a reply to @ JakAHearts's post | #9

More hard light.

Please, folks, lets give Bobby examples that apply to his original post and request.

Soft light is not just a virtue of using a large umbrella or modifier. It's the placement and proximity of the light source relative to the subject that makes it apparently large, and thus, soft.

Transitions and shadow edges should be smooth and gradual.

Carry on.

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Mar 14, 2011 12:36 | #10

I think you scared everyone away Rob. :lol:

Of course, this is all open to interpretation (as probably is my spelling of that word hahaha) There are two ends of the extreme and then the areas between them.

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Mar 14, 2011 12:41 | #11

JakAHearts wrote in post #12017819

I think you scared everyone away Rob. :lol:

Of course, this is all open to interpretation (as probably is my spelling of that word hahaha) There are two ends of the extreme and then the areas between them.

Well I hope I didn't scare everyone. That certainly wasn't my intent.

I'm with you on interpretation when it comes to relative softness but I think that when there are hard, defined edges with very fast transitions, it's hard to see that as anything other than hard (or harder) light. :cool:

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Mar 14, 2011 12:46 | #13

TMR Design wrote in post #12017855

Sure, but then that same light is softer than the next "harder" light. This is a topic for a whole new thread. Dont want to overrun Bobbyz request.

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Mar 14, 2011 12:46 as a reply to @ vegasboy's post | #14

This is never going to happen.
Sorry Bobby, I tried.

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Mar 14, 2011 12:48 | #15

Does it count if the subject is sitting? Used a single 39" DO with both diffusers on camera left.

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