On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> Another b&w of dancer Rachel Cornejo. > > Love those dancer's legs. Very nice.
She is so strong and fit it makes you sick. :) >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/bruce_m_walker/24182314865/in/album-72157660648703824/lightbox/ >> >> 645z, DFA645 90mm f:2.8 Macro, f:11, 1/125th sec, 100 ISO. >> >> Socked 22" beauty dish boomed on-axis with camera, above. >> Two tall strip softboxes left and right. > > I was just about to ask about the lighting, thanks for posting it. I had > figured out the striplights and was wondering about on axis. > What do you mean by socked beauty dish? Does that basically make it like a > round softbox? Yeah, kind of. The sock is like a white fabric shower cap that slips over the beauty dish. The light spread goes from a narrow 45 degrees to about 130 degrees. But it's still fairly specular because the dish is silver. And the light is most intense in the center with strong circular falloff. I aimed it at the subject's head and set it about a stop or so less than the strips. Gives a nice shine to her shoulders in this specific shot, but more importantly when Rachel is facing us the beauty dish fills in shadows on her face and avoids that intense, tough-guy look that you get from split lighting that looks okay with men but is very unflattering on women. -- -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.
