First time using Studio Equipment.

[CourtneyCollins]

We had homecoming the other night, and the studio photographer let me use his set up for the night for some quick senior pictures of a friend of mine.. I thought they turned out decent, but there is always room for improvement.

The dress was awesome to be wearing along with cleats and softball socks to show off the girly but tough side. I was shooting at 1/50, using a 50-200 mm lens and about a f stop of 5.6 I think.

Note: The background is very wrinkled, but none of this was my set up and I could not change anything about it... I could edit it out yes, but I haven't made it that far in my photoshopping skills

 

[D-B-J]

Two major issues I see immediately: the light placement was too high (not the intense eye-shadow, likely made worse by her makeup) and the WRINKLED background. Still, poses seem comfortable and such. Not bad at all for a first attempt.

Jake

Edit: Also... why 1/50th?!? Camera shake!!!!!

 

[CourtneyCollins]

Two major issues I see immediately: the light placement was too high (not the intense eye-shadow, likely made worse by her makeup) and the WRINKLED background. Still, poses seem comfortable and such. Not bad at all for a first attempt.

Jake

Thank you, althought I had no say in adjusting where the lighting was placed or the background being wrinkled... Just got to put the flash to my camera but thank you!

 

[D-B-J]

Two major issues I see immediately: the light placement was too high (not the intense eye-shadow, likely made worse by her makeup) and the WRINKLED background. Still, poses seem comfortable and such. Not bad at all for a first attempt.

Jake

Thank you, althought I had no say in adjusting where the lighting was placed or the background being wrinkled... Just got to put the flash to my camera but thank you!

Well then I think the "pro" friend or whoever set them up didn't do it that well... [emoji12]

 

[Rick50]

Not bad at all. For, the background it might help to pull the subject further away, lower the light power and open up the aperture a bit to reduce depth of field.
This would fuzz out the wrinkles a little.

 

[D-B-J]

Not bad at all. For, the background it might help to pull the subject further away, lower the light power and open up the aperture a bit to reduce depth of field.
This would fuzz out the wrinkles a little.

Irons also work quite well [emoji106]

 

[tirediron]

Not bad at all. For, the background it might help to pull the subject further away, lower the light power and open up the aperture a bit to reduce depth of field.
This would fuzz out the wrinkles a little.

Irons also work quite well [emoji106]

Even better!

 

[Braineack]

Edit: Also... why 1/50th?!? Camera shake!!!!!

the exposure should be coming from the flash--1/50sec should still be tack sharp. But you do run into the issue of have dual exposures: one from flash, and one from ambient.

They all seem relatively sharp to me, but for image #4, but the lighting also seems different there like it's only ambient/continuous lighting or something.

I agree, the light placement was bad. She really need to get light down to her eyes. Was this a two light setup, both at about 45°? Maybe frame left light was almost 90° to camera?

And I think shooting at f/5.6 was too narrow. Needed something in the range of f/8 to f/11.

Good stuff none-the-less, I'd just try to lighten/recover her eyes a bit.

 

[gsgary]

Model way to close to the background and too much light on the background