Thursday, 14 July 2011

Under my umberella... ella, ella, ella....

So this week I got my new convertible shoot through/Reflective umbrellas which I found some time to play with tonight.

So I asked my lovely wife to partake in my experimentation with umbrella work and she was kind enough to say yes :)






So using the above setup (1 strobe pointed into the shoot through umbrella and 1 CTB'd  Strobe pointed at the wall to separate the subject) Igot some interesting results...

ISO was set to 200, Umbrella Strobe was sitting at either 1/8th or 1/16th power depending on the picture and the gelled strobe was at 1/8th power. I chose to keep the umbrella close to the subject in order to limit the effect that it had on the background. Also when you put it close to the subject - the relative size of the light source increases, hence softening the light further as David Hobby explains in his awesome, awesome blog The Strobist

So I ended up with a few interesting shots of myself and Shona, first including ambient light........




And then I cut out the ambient and boosted the gelled strobe......












I thought I'd throw in a few extra faces there :)

So yeah - I think I'll be using umbrellas alot more now for profiles :)

Az.





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