Studio Lighting

Can you guys CC my use of studio light and background please. It's my second session and just trying to see what I'm missing.... I used 2 norman strobes with the 800w pack, each on a seperate channel. Strobe camera left shot through an umbrella , and strobe camera right shot through an umbrella softbox.

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I think the first one is too bright. You also need to watch the shadows - in the first, the woman is casting shadows onto the man. IN the second, her hair is leaving a shadow on her face. It looks like your lighting is pushed too far to the sides.

+the crop on the first one is too tight.

thanks guys, ok the strobes are pushed far to the sides.... I will try moving them in more.

mtimber i didnt crop the image at all, just used the 50mm.... I took the pic to close then?

As far as the shadow in the first you could have the male move forward just a bit and you could also use a fill card to help with the shadows.
The lighting on the second looks good to me but I agree it is a bit tight. I may would back off the power of the primary light and center it a little more, the right side of his face is a bit hot and shadowed on the left.
You could also recover some of this in Lightroom.

Cropping - if the images are for prints you need some space for cropping of different sizes without destroying the image.

Michaelangelo716 wrote in post #12385540
thanks guys, ok the strobes are pushed far to the sides.... I will try moving them in more.

mtimber i didnt crop the image at all, just used the 50mm.... I took the pic to close then?

Yes, you need to pull back on your composition.

That way you can crop in easily.