On Jan 22, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Nick David Wright wrote: > Most studio-style lights have the option to remove the reflector > giving you a barebulb flash (which is what those fong-dongy things are > largely immitating).
I could remove the reflector. That would make it a non-directional point source, which may work. I'm actually thinking of cutting a small circle out of a steel bowl, so that the light went forward and up, in a much broader pattern than with the stock reflector. > > I'm curious why you're not pleased with the lighting in your samples? It's too flat for my taste, but it was pretty much either that, or too harsh. > > The reason I ask ... the light is good, but almost too flat for my > taste. Not enough directionality to it. And going barebulb would only > flatten the light even further. What I want is most of the light going forward, to give depth to the lighting, but with a reasonable amount of fill. I suppose I could also try using the studio strobe as the key, and a softbox on camera as fill to soften the shadows. Ideal would probably be a ring flash. > > Were I to do it, I'd start by setting my main light opposite the > mirror with a large scrim between the light and the subject (letting > the mirror provide fill). > > I'm also curious ... seeing these are dance portraits, and you're in a > dance room, what's behind the curtain? A mirror. I didn't want to be in the picture myself. > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> In a couple of weeks, I'm going to be doing dance portraits again at a local >> milonga. There's a small dance studio room, my guess is that it's about 9' >> wide, by 15' long with mirrors along the left wall, and behind the curtain >> in these shots: >> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157625618971307/ >> >> I'm not entirely pleased with the lighting in these shots, what I think that >> I need to do is something akin to a lightsphere on my big strobe, back and >> to the right of the camera as my key, bouncing a lot of the light off the >> ceiling. With luck, I'd get enough bounce off the mirror to fill on the >> left that I may not need much in the way of fill flash on the left. >> >> Has anyone had any luck doing something like this? What did you use for an >> oversized fongdong? >> >> Any other suggestions on how to handle the lighting? >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > ~Nick David Wright > http://www.nickdavidwright.net/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
