portrait lighting ?

frg

bought an umbrella from the dollar store the other week as it was raining pretty hard, noticed it had a kinda silvery color on the other side.... anyway rigged it up to my tripod stuck my sb600 on about 1/4 power I think.
came out underexposed probably should have gone for 1/2 or full... anyway used lightroom beta to convert the raw and adjust exposure then Elements 3 to tweak....
tell me what you think?

AntoineD

I think there's no "real" underexposure here, but it may be a matter of taste

Anyway, instead of changing the flash power, try "playing" with the aperture to modify the flash range. Big aperture = big range. Small aperture =… smaller range.

That's a very quick résumé but I'm sure you got the point

You may try to set your flash at 1/64's of its power, and approach it to your subject. Will give you a more "envelopping" light.

Scott_Quier

Well, if it came out of the camera a little under-exposed, you can't see it here and I think you did a wonderful job of recovery.

Really like the soft shadows and the nice light triangle under her right eye (is this what they call the "Rambrant triangle?).

frg

thanks for taking the time to look and comment guys...

Antoine, I will try out your suggestions, had a look at your portfolio, very interesting series... like what you did with the lighting

Thanks Scott ..... not really sure what its called... in all honesty, I just had a general idea of where to put the light and read somewhere to turn the power down..... the results were more luck than on purpose... had a lot of fun doing it though, I think I shall experiment some more and do a bit more research on lighting......

igophoto

I need to go to the dollar store more often. Its a great place to get all kinds of things from props to light modifiers. I bought a big plastic bottle of bubble bath there once and use it as a diffusor on my SB800, works like a light sphere. lol

AntoineD

frg wrote:

thanks for taking the time to look and comment guys...

Antoine, I will try out your suggestions, had a look at your portfolio, very interesting series... like what you did with the lighting

thanks for the comment & keep us posted

Seneca

Wow looks great to me.

frg

Thank you all for taking the time to look.......

Check out this site , major info on using speedlights
http://strobist.blogspot.com/

Art Scott

I really like it.....as Antoine said ...try adjusting by aperature....one other thing you might try (and I am presuming you only have the 1 flash)...try setting a lamp or work light behinf and above to create some separation between her and the brown wall or point more toward her as a hair light....

It is a good portrait.

Antonio Correia

Your final result is very nice.

frg

Art Scott wrote:

I really like it.....as Antoine said ...try adjusting by aperature....one other thing you might try (and I am presuming you only have the 1 flash)...try setting a lamp or work light behinf and above to create some separation between her and the brown wall or point more toward her as a hair light....

It is a good portrait.

Thanks Art ..... 1 flash it is.... I do have a couple of work lights in the garage... I will try them out on the weekend

Thanks Antonio