rodnunley
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Hey guys and gals ... I'm looking for a little help.
I have a friend who wants me to do a shoot with her next week. She is wanting to project slides of stars, nebula's, galaxies and the like onto her and have pictures taken.
I've seen this before but have never done anything like it myself.
I shoot with a Nikon D5000. I have a 50mm 1.8 Nikon lens and a remote shutter release to reduce vibration. I've got a softbox and shoot through umbrellas with 5000k constant light bulbs to use but from what I have seen I might be using the projector as the only light source.
I have an empty bedroom that I can use for the shoot and only one widow that I can easily cover to control light. My guess is that I want total darkness in the room and only the projector.
I have seen some images with white backgrounds and some in the same style with a black background. I like both (the white holds the image and the black seems to absorb the light and all that can bee seen is the female body) background uses and will try shooting both.
So my questions are the following:
Do I black out the room completely or allow some additional light (other than the projector)? Any ideas on a shutter speed and aperture setting that will work best with such small amounts of light? I want as low an ISO as possible but realize I may need to bump it some for the images to show.
Any tips from those that may have done something similar to this?
Thanks everyone for any advice. I am still a new student of photography and am hoping to get some good images out of this shoot. I figure the more I prepare the technical end of things early on the more I can focus on the composition during the shoot.
I have a friend who wants me to do a shoot with her next week. She is wanting to project slides of stars, nebula's, galaxies and the like onto her and have pictures taken.
I've seen this before but have never done anything like it myself.
I shoot with a Nikon D5000. I have a 50mm 1.8 Nikon lens and a remote shutter release to reduce vibration. I've got a softbox and shoot through umbrellas with 5000k constant light bulbs to use but from what I have seen I might be using the projector as the only light source.
I have an empty bedroom that I can use for the shoot and only one widow that I can easily cover to control light. My guess is that I want total darkness in the room and only the projector.
I have seen some images with white backgrounds and some in the same style with a black background. I like both (the white holds the image and the black seems to absorb the light and all that can bee seen is the female body) background uses and will try shooting both.
So my questions are the following:
Do I black out the room completely or allow some additional light (other than the projector)? Any ideas on a shutter speed and aperture setting that will work best with such small amounts of light? I want as low an ISO as possible but realize I may need to bump it some for the images to show.
Any tips from those that may have done something similar to this?
Thanks everyone for any advice. I am still a new student of photography and am hoping to get some good images out of this shoot. I figure the more I prepare the technical end of things early on the more I can focus on the composition during the shoot.