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Bought some strobes off amazon, via neweer, 3 strobe lights as I found it such a pain charging up batteries for my flashes. Lighting is all new to me, so please forgive my babbling.
The location is rubbish, my living room, nothing spectacular going on in the background so what I'm posting here, is more to do with the lighting setup and something I picked up on a youtube tutorial.
So I have 2 of the 3 strobes unpacked, onto stands, one has a silver reflective umbrella shooting into and allowing overspill of light on the sides to create my rim light (is it rim light or hair light or are they both the same?)
The other strobe has a white shoot through umbrella to soften the light. I'd use my softbox but that's another story (a large softbox for flashguns, not strobe/mono lights) so I used this fairly small, can be more than 19 inches wide and is about 3 to 4 foot away that the wife and about 2 foot higher than her, shooting down at about 35 degrees.
Lastly, without thinking, I used one of my flash guns, popped it onto the camera, set the strobes as slaves - I think if I used the remote cable that came with each of the strobes, I could have shot at a higher shutter speed (800th of a sec according to the manual), so I went for 160th of a sec, otherwise I was getting a curtain issue with the sync from the flash. Flash was pointing to the ceiling. Aperture was set to F8. Power on the strobes was set to lowest. I did, in camera raw, have to adjust the exposure +0.35 to get it right, was a tad underexposed from what I could see on the backscreen of the camera. I do have a light meter - think I should try using that.
The only things I can see I need to do next time is: Move the strobe with the umbrella more towards the front of the subject rather than 45degrees to the side to fill in some light - but to be honest - any tips on improvements of the position of lights - close - far away? any good links to websites with lighting setups/diagrams like I have provided below?
Thanks for looking
Larger versions can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdhpix/12070280516/sizes/l/in/photostream/
A diagram of how I set it up : One silver reflective umbrella (approx 19", shot into and reflect back towards the strobe, one white shoot-through umbrella (approx 19")
The location is rubbish, my living room, nothing spectacular going on in the background so what I'm posting here, is more to do with the lighting setup and something I picked up on a youtube tutorial.
So I have 2 of the 3 strobes unpacked, onto stands, one has a silver reflective umbrella shooting into and allowing overspill of light on the sides to create my rim light (is it rim light or hair light or are they both the same?)
The other strobe has a white shoot through umbrella to soften the light. I'd use my softbox but that's another story (a large softbox for flashguns, not strobe/mono lights) so I used this fairly small, can be more than 19 inches wide and is about 3 to 4 foot away that the wife and about 2 foot higher than her, shooting down at about 35 degrees.
Lastly, without thinking, I used one of my flash guns, popped it onto the camera, set the strobes as slaves - I think if I used the remote cable that came with each of the strobes, I could have shot at a higher shutter speed (800th of a sec according to the manual), so I went for 160th of a sec, otherwise I was getting a curtain issue with the sync from the flash. Flash was pointing to the ceiling. Aperture was set to F8. Power on the strobes was set to lowest. I did, in camera raw, have to adjust the exposure +0.35 to get it right, was a tad underexposed from what I could see on the backscreen of the camera. I do have a light meter - think I should try using that.
The only things I can see I need to do next time is: Move the strobe with the umbrella more towards the front of the subject rather than 45degrees to the side to fill in some light - but to be honest - any tips on improvements of the position of lights - close - far away? any good links to websites with lighting setups/diagrams like I have provided below?
Thanks for looking
Larger versions can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdhpix/12070280516/sizes/l/in/photostream/
A diagram of how I set it up : One silver reflective umbrella (approx 19", shot into and reflect back towards the strobe, one white shoot-through umbrella (approx 19")