Hailey -- first shoot with new lights.

Any feedback would be awesome.

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Looks a touch underexposed and your background looks very underexposed. Did you use a meter?

Try and get that background lit evenly. If you were going for white, it should be all white. If you were going for gray, it should be all gray. Right now, it looks like you just didnt light it properly.

What's the stuff in the background in the bottom of 2?

Maybe pull back the skin work a little as well. Pretty model; keep shooting her.

Not for these 2, had metered for some with her laying on the floor, rolling around on the white sheet you still see on the floor on the bottom of shoot 2.

It's a 9x12 room with 8 foot ceilings, getting the light constant on the background is a big challenge.

She was having a major bad breakout day, but yeah, I agree I think sometimes less is more.

yeah the skin blur is just way too strong. If you are going to use a white drop you really have to make it white. Its tough to do sometimes with one background light.

I'll pull the original when I get home, the originals were brighter, I cranked the exposure down a little, then did a white vignette in light room. The solid stark white background caused her white shirt to get a little lost in the background.

Please remove the white vignette in number 2. It doesnt do well on her jeans. I would say loose it all the way in both but thats just my opnion of white vignetting in this case.

If you were going for the white background look and thats what you really want to do then listen to the above and keep working with it. If not then try moving around (even though the room isnt huge) and getting different angles (low from the left 45 degrees with camera close to the floor, same for the right, shoot 90 degrees from both directions) while keeping the light stationary. Then try moving the light around while you stay at the same angle. Its a few things you can do with a small room and still be creative.

I just really didn't like how the shirt got lost in the background.

Oh this version is so much better than the previous posts. The shirt doesnt fade into the background on my monitor and that terrible white vignette is gone.

I used burn in lr to darken the right shoulder a little. I tried to get out my spyder 2 express to calibrate my monitor again to see if it's off, and I can't find the serial number. ;-( I have to buy a monitor calibration thing from someone else, having to find the serial number to use a piece of hardware really bugs me, they should at least give you basic function with out a serial number, and make you put in a serial number if you wanted the features they charge extra for. grr.

MUCH better than the first 2. the shirt absolutely does not get lost.

if you meter your subject and background properly, you will always be able to differentiate a white subject on a white background.

CosmoKid wrote in post #12023531
MUCH better than the first 2. the shirt absolutely does not get lost.

if you meter your subject and background properly, you will always be able to differentiate a white subject on a white background.

I'm still learning, studio lights are new to me.

To much blur it seems , I would have went with a darker backround for contrast

Lots and lots of things going on here. A beautiful young lady. Focus is nice. The clothing, the prop and the background are all in the same key, nice!

Problems. WB is off. Shoot in Raw, shoot a gray card first. WB problems will then no longer be problems. Pose is quite static but I use it on occasion myself. The kicker is nice and soft (ambient light from a window I assume) but it is blue and has encroached onto the side of her nose. Main light was too close to the camera and the image is underexposed by one stop. To be real picky, the necklace is crooked and long sleeves keeps our eyes off her face and on her arms.

Benji

12Rock wrote in post #12023900
To much blur it seems , I would have went with a darker backround for contrast

Well I really wasn't paying much attention to the background when taking this, I was trying to see what my new 6' soft box, and 48' umbrella on the main light did to light the subject.

gonzogolf wrote in post #12021467
Oh this version is so much better than the previous posts. The shirt doesnt fade into the background on my monitor and that terrible white vignette is gone.

+1 on the vignetting. try cooling her down a little by adjusting the WB. Seems a little warm for my taste. Keep shooting tho. You can always do PP to this later