R. Francois wrote:
Anyhoo: i like the placement so close to the background and the shadow you've created on it. How far is your model from the background and what settings (and placement) did you use on the flash?
Glad you like it, I was playing around with some different lighting.
She's around 2ft from the background or so. The lighting was from 2 sources, the key light was an SB-800 in a small soft box placed slightly behind the model to the right and feathered toward the camera. The second light was an SB-800 held directly against the lens to the bottom left of the lens barrel. That's the light that's creating the wall shadow.
I controlled them both via CLS and they were in TTL mode. I think the key was ~1 stop above the fill. Camera settings were 1/250 @ f/3.5 @ ISO 200 @ 52mm on a D300. Used a little SG-3IR to block the popup commander.
cheeba wrote:
Wow, Steezus, those are stunning! Looove the processing on these; but, there is some halo-ing around the bridge's legs.
Thanks. Usually I upload a shot and end up seeing sensor dust or some other weird thing, but only after I deleted the .tiff and obsessively compulsively emptied my recycle bin..
rsolti, thanks, all your shots have me quite anxious to head out to Savannah as soon as we have an extended break!
Went to Kew Gardens yesterday armed with D300, 150mm macro, F80, 50mm macro, 10-20mm. It was a lot of weight and after 7 hours of carrying it all around my shoulders were very sore.
Managed to get a good hoard of keepers. Here's just a few...
