Mardi, my photo-shoot from yesterday.

Excellent turnout imo. These are the images that she is okay with me plastering on the net.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2618/...a1a21078a8.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3488/...fc84cf5e06.jpg


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i dont know much about photography so i cant give you excellent cnc, but i will say they have nice lighting, shes in a good pose etc, nice job

the first shot is a good pose. I like the S pose makes for a feminine look.
The lighting is good but IMo the key light seems a bit uneven looking. Especially at her legs where she has shadow and the highlight is like a sliver., would have just prefered a bit of more fill to the right of the camera.

Good job overall though. If you can try and minimize thewhite outline around her on the left side its a bti distracting.

The second pose is cool, loving the text. teh sepia color is cool but the green shirt makes it look a bit sickly would have prefered it as more of a grayish tone. GJ dude.

What kind of lights are you using?

In the first she's glowing. Like really her right arm is glowing o.O nice shots otherwise.

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Originally Posted by Papa

the first shot is a good pose. I like the S pose makes for a feminine look.
The lighting is good but IMo the key light seems a bit uneven looking. Especially at her legs where she has shadow and the highlight is like a sliver., would have just prefered a bit of more fill to the right of the camera.

Good job overall though. If you can try and minimize thewhite outline around her on the left side its a bti distracting.

The second pose is cool, loving the text. teh sepia color is cool but the green shirt makes it look a bit sickly would have prefered it as more of a grayish tone. GJ dude.

What kind of lights are you using?

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these were shot with a canon 430 ex speedlite inside of a DIY softbox. I think I set the strobe to 1/2 or full power. Can't remember. I just spent 330 on a tokina 12-24 wide angle for sport and portrait work, so it's gonna be a while before i can purchase a cheap vivitar fill light. But rest assured, its on my list!

edit: also, i don't currently own a lightstand, so i was trusting my friend (a non-photographer) to place light for me as close to my directions as he could. I totally agree about it being stuck on her legs though.

nice dude thats slick. How do u like the 430 ex?

You might wanna look into a vivitar or sunpack on ebay they can run like 50 bucks its slick.
Friends are the best form of lightstand IMO. More portable and only cost a burger at micke D's.

A kind of DIY reflector for some fill on the legs might be on of those foily things you put underneath your windsheild when ur cars in the sun. I use mine occasionally and it works decently to get a small reflection.

Anyway thanks for posting, cool shots.

honestly, the 430 ex is great. It has been useful in pretty much every situation I thought I might need it, and some I didn't but thought I'd try it anyway. Granted, I haven't used too many flashes. I do plan on picking up a UV filter for my new wide lens today, so I may check into some vivitar flashes while I'm at the camera shop.

very cool. well keep shooting. Always like seeing this kind of stuff.

1st is pro