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 p.1 #6 · Triggering two strobes - how to? | |
For the IT39 Pro as a hair light, you might be better off using it without a modifier. You will likely need all the light that you can get out of it. Remember the Inverse Square Law of light - for each foot of distance between light and subject, the light level drops by 1/2. That means that at 2ft distance you only have 1/4 of the light output. At 3 ft distance you have 1/8 of the light output, etc, and adding an umbrella is going to reduce it by 1/2 of whatever it is as it passes through the umbrella. Keep it positioned just out of the camera view and it should work as a hair light. At 10 ft, you probably won't even see it's effect. Each of these increments is one F-Stop in light measurement, and most white photographic umbrellas have a 1 F-Stop loss in the light level as the light is passing through them. This is why I haven't bothered getting any of these new micro flashes. They are almost not enough light output for good photographs at close distances.
Good luck in your shoot. I had once tried getting my wife to pose for me, but after about 10 minutes she asked "how long is this going to take?" When I replied "about an hour", she got up and left, saying "I have better things to do", and she won't come back.
When I asked what other Pro photographer frinds do when they need someone to pose for them and no one is available, they all told me "Get a Mannequin, we have them". My wife wasn't very happy with me having a woman in my studio to pose for me, even if she was plastic, but I did finally buy one, the cheapest mannequin that I could find on Amazon at $86. She was made by Yaheetech, a Japanese Company, and she is beautiful, and not oriental looking at all. I found hair for her at the Halloween Aisle in Walmart (right time of year), shoes, jewelry, and a dress at the local thrift stores, and now she poses for me whenever I need her to, without ever complaining. She will hold a pose indefinitely too, but she is a little stiff and only a few of her joints move, so I have to make use of her in the few positions that she can do.
Now, the dark side of owning a plastic woman for your photography -
I bought a second very pretty party dress and another wig for her, so I could make her look different once in a while. But then one day when I went into the gear closet for another light, I discovered that my plastic woman was building a wardrobe of her own in my gear closet. Nice stuff too, but how was she doing this? I asked her, but of course I got no reply, so I kept watching to see how this was happening.
I finally found out that my wife and my neighbor's wife were shopping at the thrift shops for my plastic woman. After my wife not being happy to have another woman in the house, she had decided that since I wasn't asking her to pose for me any more, that maybe this plastic woman wasn't so bad to have around after all. So she and her neighbor friend had started buying clothes for my plastic woman and filling my gear closet with them. Once I had found out what was happening, I quickly put a stop to it, but by then over 1/4 of my gear closet was full of nice women's clothes. My mannequin is 5' 8" tall and 34-24-35" with size 6 shoes, so a bit tough to find clothing that fits her well in this town of mostly huge women, but one this size must exist somewhere in town and must have cleaned out her closet and given everything to Goodwill at the right time for my mannequin. I've been looking for this real woman, but so far I haven't seen her in town, and I'm still working on returning some of this excess clothing to the thrift stores. I made my wife promise not to shop for my plastic woman (now named Linda) any more.
I could have bought a male mannequin and all this wouldn't have happened, but I decided that since most of the portraits that I take are of females, that a female mannequin would be a better choice. She is nice to look at, but just basically a 5' 8" Barbie Doll. The right shape, but with no sex features, although she is perfect for helping me set up the studio lights for my portrait shots.
Charley
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