Had a few opportunities tonight to shoot. I noticed the evening sun coming through the boys' bedroom window and I decided to grab the umbrella and balance with the sun. So I was in the process of doing that when I hear from the master bathroom "Come look at Maggie, she has funny ears". That lead to this natural light photo. We have a big window at the bathtub that I have frosted and it makes a great light source.
So back to the boys' room and another natural light shot here with the sun filtering through the bunk bed beams.
Labels:
balancing ambient,
hair light,
kids,
natural light,
one light,
portraits,
rim light
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I'm switching back. Man I hate to do this switching back and forth but I am so bummed about the lack of widgets and the ability to customize on wordpress. They're security is so high that you are very limited in the HTML/JAVA widgets that you can add to your blog.
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So I went out back with the boys today with my camera and my autoshade from Wal-Mart. The day is sunny so I figured I could use the sun and the reflector for two light sources.
In the shot above, the sun is coming from above and behind the subject from camera right. I stuck the reflector in close camera right in front.
For these last two shots, the setup is thus: sun from camera left and slightly behind and the reflector used to fill from camera right.
This is a very inexpensive and effective way to make a little more interesting light. My autoshade is silver. I would like to have a gold one but I haven't found one yet.
Post processing done in Lightroom. Man I really like using that. Haven't found something to do in photoshop in a while. Especially for portrait touch-up.
Be blessed.
Labels:
portraits,
reflector
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Here are a few shots made while visiting our great friends in South Carolina. It rained (and then snowed) the entire time we were there so we stayed inside mostly which gave opportunity to set up the lights. The house was great in the living room here. Exposed beams in the ceiling worked great with a super-clamp from Manfrotto. So the setup is the same in this group. I used the old Sunpak 411 for the the background @ 1/4 power. A gridded Canon 540EZ is hanging from the ceiling @ 1/32th power. And the 285HV is going thru a white shoot-thru umbrella @ 1/16th power.
They also had an awesome sun-room facing west. I took some natural light portraits as well. I think the next post will contain those shots.
Be blessed.
Labels:
Cactus Triggers,
family portraits,
grid spot,
hair light,
multiple lights,
portraits,
rim light,
shoot thru
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I really like this shot. One of those moments that I didn't intend to capture but it just happened. The boys are up on top of my truck. The sun is setting and I am trying to see what I can get in such low light. The minute I took it, I knew it was a good one. At least to me that is.
I worked on it a little in LR2. Brought up the blacks a little added the gradients from 3 sides.
Be blessed.
Labels:
family portraits,
sillhouette,
sunset
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