Using the college studio lights as previously described. I took care to place the cables out of direct lines of transit and let the lights cool after the session. The home studio has reasonable daylight and I screened off the the windows to avoid direct sunlight and reflections. Modelling lights not used to avoid unnecessary heat.
Neither my big sister or huge brother in law have photosensitivity issues, they were asked to wear white Tshirts, light foundation and lip gloss. Before they arrived, I'd set up the lights initially to work with a widish aperture of f/16, as the 2 sets of eyes were likely to be in different planes, using my Sekonic light meter.
First shots are at f/16, 1/125 sec, ISO 200. Using a Velbon Delta tripod and my usual Nikon D90 and 18-105 Nikkor VR lens. The last few pictures are taken with my new Tamron 90mm Macro lens just to see how it would handle portrait photography. As previous, I'm using a hot shoe adapter and cable to fire the first flash, the second is triggered by the flash of the first.
I'd seen a great portrait shot in the window of a photo studio on the way to college in Stapenhill, with 2 sitters to the far right of the shot.
The Law of Diminishing Returns as applied to Photography.
Unsuprisingly, with portrait photography the more targets you introduce the less chance you have of hitting them, so shooting 2 subjects is more than twice as difficult as 1, shadows are difficult to avoid and getting all 4 eyes open at the same time is tricky, facial expressions rely on the wide variety of variables and are only synchronised by luck. Fortunately, our family are incredibly good looking (and patient) and I should be able to drag some of these into intense Photoshop editing (!)
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