weekend shots

dreamcometrue

A girlfriend and I went out and practiced shooting this weekend. We played with a 41" 5 in 1 reflector. Here are a few:
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c&c welcome Thanks all:D

D'Buggs

#3 is a popper! Whatever you girls did here, really worked well. I particularly like the skin tones and hair details of that pic.

dreamcometrue

D'Buggs wrote:

#3 is a popper! Whatever you girls did here, really worked well. I particularly like the skin tones and hair details of that pic.

Thank dbuggs!! We had so much fun. I did very well with the natural light. My problem is I am trying to improve my fill flash skills. My problem is it is either to strong or not enough. i have been polishing my curves adjustment also using lab color

D'Buggs

dreamcometrue wrote:

Thank dbuggs!! We had so much fun. I did very well with the natural light. My problem is I am trying to improve my fill flash skills. My problem is it is either to strong or not enough. i have been polishing my curves adjustment also using lab color

Do yourself a HUGE favour

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> Get a handheld light meter and start playing around with ~a 50% reduction of fill to that of ambient. A meter is the only way, to get away, from hit-n-miss photograghy. It doesn't have to be overly fancy, just reliable - Sekonic makes 'em that range all over the pricing spectrum. The one I have is their model # L 308S.

It's the ONLY way to go when fartin' with multiple light sources....

Flutist

I agree, number three eyes are great!!!

dreamcometrue

Thanks for the help. I have been racking my brain trying to play with my flash. I know it has wonderful capabilities, I just need to work it. I am on a budget so I am slowly building up my accessories. 1 through 4 we used a gold reflector with no flash. The thing is I read a lot about always wanting to use the fill flash for portraits. A light meter would defiantly help me.

D'Buggs

Q.

What did you do differently between 1 and 3? (believe me, this is likely as much as a learning experience for me, as you ),,,, 1 *seems* to have more fill but less colour tone from the reflector (???) I don't "get" that.

2 seems to be crying for more light. Moving in the reflector (closer to subject) should take care of that but you'd still need to shoot and sample the results 'till you got what was needed/ideal. Fine if you got the time and patient models AND a decent laptop to view them on while on site..... Remember back when you first were trying to figure out 1 light source and manual mode??? You just stepped back to that same spot when you added another light source.

Perhaps look into info on light ratios. Try this site: http://www.studiolighting.net/. he deals mostly with studio lighting set-ups but the concept is the same as you're doing here. IIRC, he did a tute on ambient anf flash fill too, just snoop around a bit and take in ALL his tutorials - I'm SURE that they'll be helpful.


BTW I checked out your website; you have some real fine stuff there!

sweet caroline

The angle on 3 is very flattering and she has a great expression. Skin tones look the most natural to me in this one.

Caroline

bakerphotography

Yep - have to continue the trend...#3 is the best. Skin tone and eye complimented nicely.

dreamcometrue

Thank you soooo much everyone for the flattering posts.