Post by OrcaBob on Dec 13, 2009 5:40:38 GMT -5
Had a nice little shoot in a neighboring town tonight. Despite screwing up, I got some decent pics.
The screw-up? I didn't check ISO. I left it at 400 from a previous night's sunset test shots. Every shot was noisy. The noise is easily fixed with NoiseWare Pro but it's embarrassing to overlook such a basic item.
The first half of the shoot was done in the model's house. I planned on using an empty wall for high-key work, but the model failed to tell me the room's walls were brown. With some playing around with the lights, I managed to get a blown-out white background from a brown wall.
The second half of the shoot happened in the garage, where she posed on a quad-runner (she's into motocross). When I lugged a couple of lights into the garage, I stubbed my toe on a black box.
It was a fog machine!
I've been wanting to try/buy one. Now I REALLY want one.
Lighting arrangement: Main light 7 o'clock high with a 30-degree grid. Hair light 1030 o'clock medium elevation with a 20-degree grid. Intense backlight with naked 7" dish low and directly behind the quadrunner. Fog machine on intermittently from the base of the hairlight.
We frequently had to flush the garage of fog so we could start again with a new set of billowy fog in the background. It diffused quickly and just created an even haze that washed out the model.
This type of shot requires fairly hard light. The fog itself is a diffusing factor, so to use a softbox on any of the three lights would be to wash out the shot.
The screw-up? I didn't check ISO. I left it at 400 from a previous night's sunset test shots. Every shot was noisy. The noise is easily fixed with NoiseWare Pro but it's embarrassing to overlook such a basic item.
The first half of the shoot was done in the model's house. I planned on using an empty wall for high-key work, but the model failed to tell me the room's walls were brown. With some playing around with the lights, I managed to get a blown-out white background from a brown wall.
The second half of the shoot happened in the garage, where she posed on a quad-runner (she's into motocross). When I lugged a couple of lights into the garage, I stubbed my toe on a black box.
It was a fog machine!
I've been wanting to try/buy one. Now I REALLY want one.
Lighting arrangement: Main light 7 o'clock high with a 30-degree grid. Hair light 1030 o'clock medium elevation with a 20-degree grid. Intense backlight with naked 7" dish low and directly behind the quadrunner. Fog machine on intermittently from the base of the hairlight.
We frequently had to flush the garage of fog so we could start again with a new set of billowy fog in the background. It diffused quickly and just created an even haze that washed out the model.
This type of shot requires fairly hard light. The fog itself is a diffusing factor, so to use a softbox on any of the three lights would be to wash out the shot.
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