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lighting suggestions?

Postby Oz_Beachside on Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:15 pm

Hi,

This one, taken late in day, to me, needs a little more light on her left side.

Any suggestions? My assistant had a 110cm reflector, mr 7zark7 was too busy being "distracted"... :shock:

possibly the addition of an SB600? How can I lift it?

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Postby Aussie Dave on Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:53 am

Oz,
I think it would beneficial to try and use a flash (or perhaps two) to help with your exposure.
To me, the overexposed sky is a dead give-away that the subject is much darker than the background. The camera can't meter for both so you need to introduce more lighting onto your subject to bring the dynamic range closer together.

If you use your camera to meter for the background, you can then play around with lighting (from a couple of speedlights - or softlights, whichever is available to you), to obtain good exposure for both. Using your speedlight(s) off-camera will work best here. This is where elcheapo tripods can be your friend - unless you have a couple of assistants :lol:

This will be a big learning curve at first but I'm sure the resulting images will be worth it. Practice makes perfect and luckily, with a dSLR, it's cheap to do so. BTW, I'd also be inclined to compose the image a little lower so her entire foot is in frame and there is a bit less space at the top of the image.

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