My Daughters

I live in the wrong country. Dad.

lol.

Thanks Dante, and Cdi

Beautiful girls and outstanding portraits. You should be proud, Dave (of the girls, of course, but also your images).

Something to aspire to.... Great work here. I love the lighting and the girls are beautiful.... thanks for sharing. I wish I could take classes with you.

Beautiful Girls and Photos, who do they get their good looks from? Ew. Edmonton. Nth Queensland, Aust

I could see the softbox on the left side of the eye but on the right I thought it might be a reflector. Just for an idea since you have a two light system, when I only had two lights I would use the first light as the main with a reflector for fill on the other side and use the second light for the background. For the hair I would use a 12"x12" plexiglass mirror on a lightstand that reflected light to the hair, it was an idea from Dean Collins and it worked great. You can also throw a gold gel over the mirror to warm up the light.

These are great shots! Nice work!

Thanks Jay, Kristy, Bee, Scott, and Sandi

Bee, Me of course

Scott, Thanks great advice

Since I mentioned the mirror that can give a nice hair light at a really low cost I decided it might be helpful to someone if I dug it out and took a few photos in case anyone wanted to make their own.
The mirror is 12" x 15" and has two screws that attach it to a piece of wood.
The wood is 2" x 2" and is notched out in back the same thickness as the plexi mirror (1/4") and is cut for the mirror to sit in 3/4" down. The final thing to do is drill a 1" hole for the expansion clamp to fit in. You can then clamp it to light stands, tripods and all kinds of other things. It works great in the studio and on location. As you can see I kept an amber gel attached to it and just flipped it over when I wanted warmth.

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And here's one of the clamp:

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Scott, Thanks for that information, I will certainly try that out. Normally I use a defused spot light for the hair light. Always good to try something new.

Best wishes,

Good idea Scott Where did you get the clamp?

That clamp, which can be handy for a bunch of stuff is called a Photoflex Litepanel Main & T Clamp. You can see one here for an example: http://whcamera.com …tion=VIEWPROD&P​rodID=3960

Dave, these are marvelous. I hope my daughter will develop such striking individuality and beauty ... she just turned four. I think they need to iron their shirts!

they are beautiful girls Dave
lovely shots

Happy Christmas

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