I have been dallying in this thread for a while trying to learn about flash & studio lighting/portraiture. I am just now starting to actually use the equipment. First I apologize for all the posts that must drive the lighting gurus nuts on here. I know you must get so weary of people like myself asking for advice and then arguing with you tooth n'nail!
Well, decided time to walk the walk and shut it with all my talk. So called a friend to visit and help me practice; cleaned the living room and moved the furniture around and started to see if I could actually do some studio work in there. Guess the room is ballpark of 15' x 20' and 9.5 height. Lovely large windows to catch the sun rising in the east and setting in the west...
so first a trip to garage for some old slat doors to place in front of window to ease the light bleed through on the black muslin. Friend & her MinPin fall asleep on couch as I struggle with such mundane stuff as pocket wizards and trying to remember how the hell I got the ABR800 attached to my camera. Once I thought everything was ready, pulled a teddy bear off the shelf and started practicing on him and got a FANTASTIC shot and can't show you, because had issue with memory card and can only save the stupid file as a tiff.
Long story short...
Very humbled by trying to pull this off. Think it will be ages before I grasp the ability to understand and do this well, let alone do it intuitively. I am posting a shot I took of my friend and her dog. I know the background is kinda wrinkled, but after trying to keep 3 dogs off it for 2 hours I was beyond caring. Now I really know why good true studios are so great and why they need to be bigger than my living room. I think it's doable, but tough. So...Thanks for all the patience with me and my annoying questions, I must have replayed 50 different threads from here through my head (complete with little avatars) while I struggled with trying to get set up and getting a semblance of a decent shot.
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