Is flat..
No, not really but I am a slow learner thou. I had a half an hour with Anna yeasterday to try out some lighting scenarios. They did not work at all. Fifteen minutes in to the shoot and had not got a single decent image. Went back to a safer note, just to get one or two ok pics. Normaly I do the safe shots first.
Why it went wrong? I had certain look in my mind, what I wanted from the image and thought it needed a hard main light. I put a grided sb as a key light and shoot through as on axis fill. I struggled with the angle and the light ratios for far too long. Eventualy I got them close enough. Still the look was off, way off.. I mean startrek off, lightyears. So beam me up scotty, and let’s get back to the track..
So the whole shoot went to hell, but I learned..What?
- First of all the straw-grid if worthless as a key light when there is no ambient at all. The beam is just too tight. I have to make one with shorter straws and shorter hull.
- Second, the look I was after is still on the softer side of light so I will have to go with the shoot through still as a main light.
- Third, the silver umberella gives nice rim light. Hardish,but better than bare speedlight
