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Just a few shots from the studio. Hope you like them.
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Nice shots, love the expression on the babies face in the one with her mum (am guessing its her mum)
Not quite right. Its her aunty!
What kind of lighting set up did you use for these?
Settings were manual mode iso100 f/11 at 1/125.
Cheers for that Dellipher. Will try that next time I get the studio kit out.
Does your camera have blinkies?
Blinkies???
I'm using the canon 350D. Is that to create the background. Sorry if i'm sounding daft.
Thanks for all your advise Dellipher. Will see what results I get with the kit next time
If you drop the f-stop down to about f9 [which is what I use in the studio thanks to DD] and then chimp to see how you go, it will probably mean that there is less "grey" and more white
Just reading through this thread. This is not good advice. If you just amend the fstop, you may end up over exposing the subject. What the background needs is more light - keep settings the same and add more light to the background.
A lightmeter is really advised here. The background should receive around one stop more light than the subject to ensure a nice white clean background is achived.
Light placement is crucial.
Im now using a nikon, im sure someone a canon user anyway, will be able to tell you how to set it up. Its good to make sure that the light is evenly balanced. Alot of the time when Im shooting in the studio, the background is "blown out" you cannot shoot the people too close to the background or else it bleaches them too.
Saying that though, when I stand away and take a photograph I get blinkies, when I add a subject, zoom in, reframe etcetc, I dont
Whoever said this photography stuff was easy?
I was just expressing what I used in the studio...
What you need to do is make sure that the subject is exposed correctly. The background is only one part of the scenario.
I understand that. Maybe I'm just being a little pedantic. But I don't think just increasing the amount of light over the whole scene is the answer here (which you get by making the aperture larger).
A small lightmeter will allow you to get the balance of subject and background correct ensuring nice white background and correctly exposed subject.
Hit and miss will work of course but takes longer to achieve and can be frustrating.
How are you ever going to learn without testing, trialing and making the odd mistakes?
I see what you are getting at. And I understand where you are coming from. But as origionally stated above I had commented that I use three lights in the set up two aimed directly at the background and was carrying on from that....in MY kind of setup.
That is why I suggest using a lightmeter. Doing it blind is not the best way to learn. Using the meter is a fantastic tool in the studio. Even using a meter I need to test and trial. Just a lot quicker and far more accurate.
Don't get me wrong, what you are doing sounds fine...... I just didn't think it was good advice advising the OP to stop down just to get the background white without consideration of the subject...... if you see what I mean?
So what would be the best way 2 set the 2 lights up that I have? One for the subject and one for the background? I know what you mean now about the blinkies Have seen them on there.
Im not arguing you about it, I obvisouly either didnt word it correctly, or you didnt read it correctly.