Saturday 15 December 2012

Gritty Speedlite Portrait




Gritty Speedlite Portrait

 
This is my son Ben, I haven't done much photography lately no real reason other than work getting in the way really. I had seen this type of light set up and processing on Kelby Training so thought I would give it a go.
 
This set up requires three speedlites or strobes. Two speedlites behind model one each side and higher than model aiming down towards the back of the neck area. These two strobes were also fitted with grids to help pin point the light. The idea is to get the light falling on the shoulder separating model from the background and also falling on the cheek area. These were set to about 1/64th power.
 
 
The third speedlite is in front of the model and lower so as not to get in the shot and acts as a fill light set to about 1/128th power with a stoffen diffuser fitted.
 
The camera was set to ISO 800 Shutter speed of 1/200th sec at F/8.0  and the speedlites fired with a set of youngnou 622c wireless triggers.
 
The lens was a Canon 70 - 200  F/4.0 USM L at 91mm on a Canon 7D
 
 
The image was then processed in Lightroom 4 and a few minor tweaks in Photoshop CS6

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