Fashion & Portraits

I do not think that any of the silent readers visit the blog to see lighting tips and diagrams as there are better blogs for that.

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On the previous post I scratched the surfice a bit but I figured I’d do a quick setup post for the pictures. As mentioned the light is used very differently even thou the lastolite ezybox is the light modifier in both solutions.

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First Iinas picture on the forrest road. Its quite normal studio setup with a key light just out of the frame camera right and very close to the subject. The fill light is on camera left. The fill light is slightly lower and further back. It was only a weakish fill so the softness was not an issue. Shot with the 80-200 / f.2.8 to compress the background in the frame and the ambient is dropped about three stops.

Second is the shot of Henna on the rocks. I pulled some frames with the flash beign the keylight and switched the Skyport trigger off.  Just the ambient shot looked nice. But nice is just nice and frankly the light in the shade was dull.  I asked henna to turn even more to her left and I jumped out to adjust the power down on the flash. I wanted it to be subtle glow on her and as I was working the long lens I could not  drag the shutter and squeeze down the aperture to pull down the flash. It would result to a blurred out image.

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The ezybox is quite a long way from the subject and therefore on the harder side of light.

En  usko, että kovin moni lukija eksyy tänne löytääkseen valaisukaavioita. Siihen lötyy parempiakin saitteja. (strobist, mcnally)

Iinan ja Hennan kuvat ovat hyvin erilaisia valonkäytön suhteen. Vaikka kummassakin on käytössä sama lastoliten ezyboksi.

Ensiksi Iinan kuva, joka on otettu Kotkassa pienellä mökkitiellä.  Setuppi on aika tavallinen studiovalaistus. Päävalo oikealta sivulta, vähän ylhäältä ja melko lähellä mallia. Täytevaloa kameran vierestä pari aukkoa alle päävalon. Jos näitä mittailisi siis. Täytelvalo on pikkasen matalemmalla. Linssinä on 80-200 f2.8 kuvattuna jotta tausta pysyy kurissa. Vallitseva valo noin kolmisen aukko alle.

Toinen kuva Hennasta kivillä. Aloitin ezyboksi päävalona mutta lopulta suljin Skyportin. Pelkkä vallitseva valo näytti ihan kivalta, mutta kiva on kiva ja se siitä. Varjossa on helppo kuvata ok kuvia, mutta ne eivät kanna liian kauas. Pyysin Hennaa kääntymään vielä enemmän jolloin päävalo jää hieman taakse. Hyppäsin parin kiven yli ja tiputin salaman tehoa. Halusin vain pienen, nätin, hienovaraisen hohdon menemään olkapäiden linjassa.

Ezy on myös suhteellisen kaukana ja näin ollen melko kovaa valoa.

Its ‘seadays’ in Kotka. Local three day festival with no purpose except getting drunk.  I got a wedding gig on saturday so it slows down a bit.

The two pictures are very different in the way the flash is used. On Iina (the top picture) the flash provides a key and the fill light. On Hennas picture the flash gives only a shine from the back left and the ambient does the rest.

There is a good rule when photographing people in difficult situations color wise. Aim for the skin tones. (Or go black and white – just kidding)

Then again, you can always discard the rules and tryout something. With photoshop all this is way too easy and most likely will end up  with a image only worthy for the trash.

Judge for your self.

The frame was orginaly filed under  ‘a secndary edit.’ Which is made for the facebook page to be exclusive content only for the page.

Well it just flipped to be the main edit. The color one just does not work as well.