Some portrait of my gf I took today:

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Lighting:

-Key light
My keylight is a Vivitar 285HV hooked to a RF wireless receiver manual power @ 1/16 shooting through a 38" white umbrella.

-Hair light
This is done with my SB-600 manual power @ 1/2 (perhaps some minor compensation too...can't remember), bounced with a 40" silver umbrella. My battery charger koyak already, can't used my second wireless receiver...had to run a wire from the hotshoe->pc adapter to my D200 pc terminal...lots of cables hanging here and there.

-Fill light
60W tungsten lamp bounced with a 40" silver umbrella there's really not much juice here, going to pick up 2 halogen lamp tomorrow....one for background, another for the fill light.

Lighting is flatter than what I'd like, but due to lacking in equipments, I had to use the hair light as the background light. The relatively short subject to background distance also caused all the creases to show up. Waiting for my HUGE black backdrop to arrive and a few more gar chang, particularly my sekonic L-358 light meter. Some high key and low key shots in the coming future. Thanks for viewing.

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Aug 12 2007, 10:02 PM

thanks for sharing the light coordination n placement
hehe..wish i also got the space to do such things

tis is ur own studio?
cool man...keep up the great works...

Preview

#1 Jaymee


#2 Rayleen - GF


#3 Samantha

the first pic a lil TOO grainy...the face details lost...

i deliberately added the noise lol

there's something about Jaymee that seems to draw attention... Her pose, her facial expression....

can't wait to see your results once your equipment is complete...

i know but its a lil too much...the face looks how to say ar...lost details...hehehe...

yes, Jaymee (i mis-spelled her name ) can pose very kau and her shots are all very "posey" and "grand".

NP with the noise, not everybody appreaciate them, I initially converted it to B&W, which already looks good, but I decided to add some noise to simulate film grain. I thought the pose, apparel, and her look matches perfectly with the presentation. i'll post the original up later.

I'll be posting another shot of Jaymee shortly...my gf want to me convert it now for some reasons...

you make it sound like i am insulting your picture but really thats just my opinion don angry oh

no lar your comments are greatly appreciated. i'll post up the original tomolo, I need to post process the pictures to eliminate her tan lines....and also to remove some backdrop flaws

Here's the one I was converting:


this one taken with my 80-200mm f2.8. The whole concept about this pictures is the "ears"

edit: oh btw, all these taken with 2 flahses only...I'm not very satisfied with some of the pictures i havent posted up...mainly because there's not enough backlight coverage to "iron out" the backdrop, especially when 3 dimension is involved (floor and wall). I need to get 2 more flahses after i sell off my Wii

This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Aug 5 2007, 01:10 PM

the soft toy very cute...hehe....\

great job on setting up the lighting
maybe u need another light from above
try to bounce it from the ceiling n give the model's hair (top part) more details
for now, it seems just dark hair without any details

I think you still need another light source as there are shadows still visible and affecting the perfectness of the pictures.

her head grown shoes

yup, that's why i bising bising not enough flash I'm gonna get 2 more shortly.

hehe...if u wanna save a bit..
maybe u can consider getting those reflector?
get the reflector stand also...
should be better than using camera's fill light

I have a reflector, but i like flash better. 4 flash should be suffice for me to create any effect I wanted


This post has been edited by AlamakLor: Aug 6 2007, 10:10 PM

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