Lmarc wrote:
Tonight while I had my lights set up I took advantage of my little six-year-old grandson Jorge and used him as a guinea pig for my very first attempt at photographing people under lights. Please pardon his chocolate mustache, he just finished some ice cream.
I improvised a background with a sheet of brown cardboard, using two 105w fluorescent lights without umbrellas or diffusion of any kind.
Nikon D-60
Nikon 55-200 zoom @ 80mm
1/30 sec exposure
f4.5
ISO 400
My question is, how can I set up lights to do a better job. I just put out two lights at random, one on each side. Would a diffuser have helped? Maybe a backlight? Something to make it a bit softer and eliminate some of the shadows?
Feel free to edit and repost anything I submit.
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Great first try! And what a gorgeous kid! He has the most beautiful eyes. You did well with the narrow depth of field to throw the background out of focus. Doing that, you can use pretty much ANYthing as a backdrop. No one would ever guess that is just a piece of cardboard.
If you want to soften the light and don't have umbrellas or a soft box, just get a big piece of white poster board and use it as a reflector. Bounce the light off of that and you'll have nice soft light, sort of like window light. I'm no expert, either, but that's my two cents!
Yeah, sit up straight, Jorge, it'll make your shirt fit better! CaptainC's advise should be followed closely, but I thought melphoto's idea about taking individual photos of key-light alone, fill-light alone, was a great learning tool. Especially considering there is no more "film" expense, or waiting to see results.
You're on your way to success, buddy, at least until the kids lose patience with you!
RMM
Loc: Suburban New York
And, in the absolutely nitpicking department, there's a bit of table edge on the bottom left that could be cropped out. It's an unnecessary distraction.
seems like u already have all the answers.
Lmarc wrote:
Tonight while I had my lights set up I took advantage of my little six-year-old grandson Jorge and used him as a guinea pig for my very first attempt at photographing people under lights. Please pardon his chocolate mustache, he just finished some ice cream.
I improvised a background with a sheet of brown cardboard, using two 105w fluorescent lights without umbrellas or diffusion of any kind.
Nikon D-60
Nikon 55-200 zoom @ 80mm
1/30 sec exposure
f4.5
ISO 400
My question is, how can I set up lights to do a better job. I just put out two lights at random, one on each side. Would a diffuser have helped? Maybe a backlight? Something to make it a bit softer and eliminate some of the shadows?
Feel free to edit and repost anything I submit.
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at least havim look into the camerait looks like a school picture. it's just a boring pic to look at. please go back and doit again!
Lmarc wrote:
Tonight while I had my lights set up I took advantage of my little six-year-old grandson Jorge and used him as a guinea pig for my very first attempt at photographing people under lights. Please pardon his chocolate mustache, he just finished some ice cream.
I improvised a background with a sheet of brown cardboard, using two 105w fluorescent lights without umbrellas or diffusion of any kind.
Nikon D-60
Nikon 55-200 zoom @ 80mm
1/30 sec exposure
f4.5
ISO 400
My question is, how can I set up lights to do a better job. I just put out two lights at random, one on each side. Would a diffuser have helped? Maybe a backlight? Something to make it a bit softer and eliminate some of the shadows?
Feel free to edit and repost anything I submit.
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