This was the outline of the lighting plan as set up by Steve. The 2 wafers nearest the back were set to flood the white back wall. Soft boxes front left and right to light subject and one above camera position with a dish.
The main problems were photographing a shiney, black moving target.
Once the lights were in position Steve left. With hindsight, I realised what I should have done then was increased the settings using the light meter, however I missed this cue and carried on to take underexposed pics, thinking the lights were set.
I checked in the camera and thought they were dark.
Doh! This is my natural hair colour and I have to dye it to get it brown.
Fortunately, I realised and changed and then did get some OK pics although my sitters were understandably starting to lose the will to live by this stage.
I made the mistake of not recording all the readings on the light meter myself on Saturday, but I can work it out as I had to adjust the f stop to get a decent image as the light meter reading was way out. This might have been due to the fact that I was using my new 70-300mm Tamron lens. It seems to need underexposure by up to 2 stops, which is quite alot.It is hard to remember to do all the "paperwork" bit when you have a subject in front of you. Mr Steve was there at the beginning and he set the lights up, and when I adjusted the setting on the camera he agreed with me that my setting was better.Hurrah.
ReplyDeleteShame I did not complete the session but will try again.
Who's the new girl? Is she up for some modelling?
ReplyDeletehair looks....er.....great Pip!!
ReplyDeleteGood shot of Mrs. black beauty!!