On Jun 9, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > For the lighting: a Westcott 28" Apollo softbox as key, C-L and up a > bit. Patri was rim-light from her left and right, slightly behind her, > with two Apollo Strip softboxes with 40 degree grids, to control > spill. I stood on a stool to get that looking down viewpoint. One > Pentax AF540FGZ in the key light and Neewer TT560's in the two strips. > > I never have trouble with getting accurate exposure of black on black > since I religiously use my light meter. [This, of course, being the > tool derided by just about everyone as completely unnecessary and "we > just use the histogram". Good f**king luck using a histogram in a shot > like this, folks. ;-) ] > Have you even tried doing it with the histogram? Set up the shot, take a test shot of her skin, adjust the setting based on the histogram, then go through and do it with the flash meter, and see how close you get. It does look to me like the highlights on her left shoulder and right cheek are blown out a bit, though you might be able to recover them in post processing. I certainly don’t deride the flash meter, it obviously works well for you. No matter what I calculate or come up with before, I always try to check the results to make sure that something wasn’t missed. By the way, for separating black subjects from black backgrounds, I’ve been having good luck with cheap ($20) optically triggered strobes that screw into light sockets and come with various colored filters. I aim them at the black background and get some nice effects. I haven’t mastered them, but they show lots of promise. -- 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.
