Beautiful light, Bruce! And a great shot of friends enjoying one
another's company.
Now that you've served as the guinea pig for the softbox, I'll revisit
the bookmark from when you pointed it out to me and order one for myself
along with a genuine lighting stand this week.
I'm doing a portrait shoot tomorrow evening, so I won't have it in time
for that. But, I'll make the best I can of what I've got at the moment.
Great work. I'm looking forward to trying my hand at eventually getting
similar results someday.
-- Walt
On 7/2/2013 8:16 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Had a really fun practice shoot this past Sunday evening with my wife
and our artist friends, very informal and arranged so I could get some
air time with location lighting gear.
I'm newly enabled with a Westcott Apollo Medium (28") softbox, picked
up Saturday, and I can now heartily endorse that kit after two
two-hour shoots and various playing about in my office studio. It
folds and mounts like an umbrella, is very light weight, and is an
amazingly efficient light source. It does act like a sail though and
very nearly blew over despite a 20 or 30 pound weight on its stand. I
need to refine my sandbagging technique.
I concentrated on individual portraiture with varying mixes of ambient
light, but I also did a few quick (meaning not well posed) group shots
just to see how that'd work. This one really grabbed me ...
http://flic.kr/p/f1KeGj
K20D, DA* 16-50mm/2.8, F5.6, 1/160th, ISO 400.
AF540FGZ on wireless trigger in Apollo 28" softbox; gelled with Rosco
#02: Bastard Straw.
Lr & Nik Suite.
More results coming later.
--
-bmw
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