Self Portrait - Strobist Attempt
I've been trying to apply what I read at Strobist and have found my subjects lack the patience required to allow me to get my lighting just right. So this morning as I planned to change the filters in my car I realized it was a great opportunity to practice my lighting.... on me. I probably spent two hours setting up and adjusting before I finally settled on this shot.
This is in my garage in daylight. Exposure is 1/320 @ 3.5 ISO 100, EOS20D, 17-55 f2.8 IS USM. There is one speed light camera right at about 6' zoomed in enough to light the engine bay and just barely spill onto me. Another speed light camera left, snooted to light just me. One last speed light camera left with an umbrella in an attempt to get some detail in my black tee shirt, that one didn't work so well. The camera is triggered by a PocketWizard, hidden in my right hand, in relay mode, two speed lights also triggered via PocketWizard, last speedlight triggered in slave mode. PP is BW conversion in Photoshop and a high pass filter applied to a second layer - blending mode = hard light, opacity = 40%, again ala Strobist.
I am pretty happy with this one, maybe the headlight area could be a little darker/less distracting and I should have a back light to separate me from the background..
What else should I learn from this??
Thanks for looking,
Steve
This is in my garage in daylight. Exposure is 1/320 @ 3.5 ISO 100, EOS20D, 17-55 f2.8 IS USM. There is one speed light camera right at about 6' zoomed in enough to light the engine bay and just barely spill onto me. Another speed light camera left, snooted to light just me. One last speed light camera left with an umbrella in an attempt to get some detail in my black tee shirt, that one didn't work so well. The camera is triggered by a PocketWizard, hidden in my right hand, in relay mode, two speed lights also triggered via PocketWizard, last speedlight triggered in slave mode. PP is BW conversion in Photoshop and a high pass filter applied to a second layer - blending mode = hard light, opacity = 40%, again ala Strobist.
I am pretty happy with this one, maybe the headlight area could be a little darker/less distracting and I should have a back light to separate me from the background..
What else should I learn from this??
Thanks for looking,
Steve
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Please move this post to the People forum. If you could give me a hint to why it is not getting any feedback I would appreciate that too.
Thanks,
Steve