Braineack
Been spending a lot of time on here!
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Friend's wife needed a new headshot and offered up dinner for me and my wife if I could make it happen.
Ended up doing them outside due to space constraints inside their house, but once you cut out the ambient, it's no different than shooting in the "studio".
Well not quite true: I couldn't use my other strobes I setup because they would not optically trigger well -- even if I held a speedlight directly up to the light sensor and fired them off, it just wasn't reliable (I did not bring my triggers for them).
Luckily I packed two Flashpoint R2 zoom speedlights, which works on the same trigger as my xplor 600 and all was well; they provided all the light I needed from them.
Used my 85mm 1.8G, 1/200sec and iso 100 to cut out the ambient and f/8 for just enough DOF while being able to soften out the wrinkles in the backdrop. Xplor600 had a beauty dish with 20° grid + diffuser sock.
Ended up doing them outside due to space constraints inside their house, but once you cut out the ambient, it's no different than shooting in the "studio".
Well not quite true: I couldn't use my other strobes I setup because they would not optically trigger well -- even if I held a speedlight directly up to the light sensor and fired them off, it just wasn't reliable (I did not bring my triggers for them).
Luckily I packed two Flashpoint R2 zoom speedlights, which works on the same trigger as my xplor 600 and all was well; they provided all the light I needed from them.
Used my 85mm 1.8G, 1/200sec and iso 100 to cut out the ambient and f/8 for just enough DOF while being able to soften out the wrinkles in the backdrop. Xplor600 had a beauty dish with 20° grid + diffuser sock.
