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DianeinCR wrote:
dmacmillian - Thank you for your comments. I was using a 60 inch octobox and an 18 inch beauty dish as fill. I did a shoot last night and reversed things. I pushed my 18 in forward and pulled the octo way back. I had both at the same power but found that to be better. Still have tweaking to do. I haven't worked much with reflectors yet but I'm thinking I need to. I appreciate your comments and advice. It's the biggest reason I post here!
I'm glad you found my post helpful In the end, you'll have to work out what works for you. I'd love to see the results of using the beauty dish as main and the octobox as fill. I suggest you keep your octobox. close as well, you want it to serve as a big soft fill.
Also, the common placement of the fill is on the camera axis. I prefer to place the fill on the axis of the subject's nose. If they are facing the camera straight on, then by default it is also on camera axis, but if they are turned to the side, the fill light should move as well. Sometimes this looks funny since you end up with key and fill close to each other.
Keep in mind that a beauty dish focuses the light and like a lens, it has a focal length. That's the distance from the subject it should be placed. If placed too close, it just becomes another relatively soft light source. If placed to far, then it's just another small and relatively harsh light source. I'm hoping you are using the beauty dish with a flash with a modeling light. It takes pretty precise placement which is hard to do unless you can see what's going on. It made me think about using a hot light spot in my camera classes to demonstrate proper Rembrandt lighting. The students were amazed to see that if the model turned their head just slightly, the lighting went from Rembrandt to (usually bad) loop lighting.
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