{"id":2883,"date":"2011-03-13T13:24:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T03:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2011-03-13T13:24:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T03:24:34","slug":"strobists-lighting-experts-lend-me-your-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/13\/strobists-lighting-experts-lend-me-your-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"Strobists, lighting experts, lend me your ears!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is going to be difficult. I have spend more than my fair share of time bagging the bejesus out of the strobist folk. But now my dear and understanding friends of the artificial light world, I need your help.<\/p>\n

I have been invited to submit a collection of portraits into a private competition with some worthwhile prize money. Ah yes, is there nothing that inspires me more than the mighty dollar, I think not. Anyhoo, I have to submit 15 portraits, using the same style, by the end of April. Plenty of time I hear you say. Well, not exactly. Firstly, finding 15 people will be a challenge. Then there is trying to get a “style”. I have decided it will be very basic. I have rigged up some lights in the shed and dragged the bride out last night for some test shots. This really is going to be a huge challenge for me. Here, after some post processing, is the 1st shot.<\/p>\n

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Despite the fact that she is drop dead gorgeous, I can hear the collective sighs of the lighting collective. Bare with me people.<\/p>\n

Basically, the set up is 2 energy saving globes on some timber to the left and right of the model. Then a flash on the floor behind the model.<\/p>\n

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You can see the flash on the floor.\u00a0 Here is the view from the camera.<\/p>\n

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And finally, the settings on the flash.<\/p>\n

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I will be completely honest, I haven’t a clue as to what that all means. I really wish I did.<\/p>\n

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Now, my question is, what is the best way to get more light on the front of the models face, and less on the sides of the cheeks?<\/p>\n

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Any help, suggestions, tips, advice or constructive criticisms accepted gratefully. I am so far out of my comfort zone I am nearly back in it.<\/p>\n

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God loves the strobists! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

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This is going to be difficult. I have spend more than my fair share of time bagging the bejesus out of the strobist folk. But now my dear and understanding friends of the artificial light world, I need your help. I have been invited to submit a collection of portraits into a private competition with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[424,600,680,840,1059],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glamour","tag-lighting","tag-model","tag-photography","tag-strobist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-Kv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}