It's saturday again and I'm not doing anything for the moment, so why not bring out the lights for yet another lighting 1 on 1.
Since I'm a big fan of the minimalistic - certainly not more than necessary - approach to studio photos that's just what I'll be serving you. Let's get jiggy with it.
The funny thing about this photo that it actually was taken in a sunny backyard which is the complete opposite of that studio you were thinking of just now (I'll stop my mind-reading from hereon) and that the exceptional woman in the picture turns out to be my mother.
Don't get nervous there now, there's nothing here we can't handle.
Don't get nervous there now, there's nothing here we can't handle.
How we did this? It's pretty simple, actually, but I'll try to do this right.
I chose to put up the backdrop in a equally shadow casted corner of our garden. It's better to light up the shadow a bit, than trying to overpower sunlight. It will just give you more control over your light, and you'll be able to work with higher flash speeds as well.
I chose to put up the backdrop in a equally shadow casted corner of our garden. It's better to light up the shadow a bit, than trying to overpower sunlight. It will just give you more control over your light, and you'll be able to work with higher flash speeds as well.
With the couch and the backdrop on the right spot I underexposed the ambient by about 1 stop (and maybe even less). F5.6 with a 1/160 shutter, is what my camera said for ambient lighting, and I believed her.
We could have gone darker here, but since the background was clear white, I didn't really found that necessary.
My Metz 48 AF-1 once again served as my main light through a white flash through umbrella. Since our ambient light was down by about 1 stop at 5.6, the light from the flash should equal a correct exposure, being 8.
The flash was aimed at the face from up high left, on about a 1,5 meter distance of the head.
Putting the umbrella close will not only give you a confined coverage, it will also help to gradually light your backdrop.
We could have gone darker here, but since the background was clear white, I didn't really found that necessary.
My Metz 48 AF-1 once again served as my main light through a white flash through umbrella. Since our ambient light was down by about 1 stop at 5.6, the light from the flash should equal a correct exposure, being 8.
The flash was aimed at the face from up high left, on about a 1,5 meter distance of the head.
Putting the umbrella close will not only give you a confined coverage, it will also help to gradually light your backdrop.
To fill up the left side of the head I used a Metz 45 CL-4 (1/32) which I put on about 2 meters from the right side of the couch.
Say that the light matched the light from the other flash, being 8.
For a little tip, if I might. Be sure to get the main light right - after that start working on that second flash of yours.
That's all there's to it.
Party on.
Party on.
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