I hear you Dave. Keep in mind that I had two lights on the white backdrop and ensured that it was entirely blown out by at least 1 stop.
I was constantly metering for correct subject exposure and believe me, she was well-lit. Two 2x4 foot softboxes (2:1 ratio) here I think. I didn't mention that the intent with the shoot is to do background replacement in Photoshop, eg spring-like yellow coloured circular gradients, or huge polka dots and the like. We had no alternative backdrops available, besides grey and black, unfortunately. I would like to try flooding the background with gelled strobes soon, but have to figure out how to gel these Bowens. I suspect they need an adapter we don't have. So anyway, the subject to background brightness/contrast balance should improve once I've done the final post-processing. Appreciate your comments, Dave! On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:23 AM, David Savage <[email protected]> wrote: > I saw it on Flickr and didn't notice you message here. My bad. > > I do like the shot, but the lighting doesn't quite work for me. I > think it needed more light on the model. > > As it is the bright background light is overpowering/brighter than the > main light on the model. > > Cheers, > > Dave > > > On 7 March 2012 22:12, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Curious: not one comment. Too offensive for the PDML? Should I have >> marked it NSFW? >> >> On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm exhausted. I was the Artistic Director and a photog for an all-day >>> photoshoot. The theme was Vintage Pinup and my goal was to produce shots in >>> the style of 40's and 50's pinups, especially Gil Elvgren. I produced a >>> shoot theme document, put it up in Google Docs and everybody participated >>> with scenario ideas, and dug around for wardrobe and props. >>> >>> Here's one shot from 709. This is essentially straight out of camera; it >>> still needs some Ps work to deal with things like the fuzz from the shag rug >>> that is snagged in the stiletto heels. >>> >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/bruce_m_walker/6804689830/in/photostream/lightbox/ >>> >>> or if Flickr lightbox gives you indigestion, >>> >>> http://flic.kr/p/bniPds >>> >>> K20D, DA* 50-135/2.8 @ 58mm/f:11, 125th, ISO 100. >>> Four Bowens 400 WS strobes, beauty dish on model, rest for bkgnd and fill. >>> Cranky radio trigger thingy. >>> >>> Enjoy! >> >> -- >> -bmw >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
