OCF C&C

[DisasterDan]

Tear them up.

1.

2.

As for the shots, they were not "Actual shots" I was just testing the waters of OCF after reading some threads and articles online.

In both i have two bare speedlights at the right and left facing "Model".

 

[Speckles]

I don't know what the **** OCF is, total newb here, but I think the light looks a bit harsh. You can see bright spots on his sweaty head. I dig his pose in the first one, though. It makes me giggle! Now I'm off to google OCF so I can be in the loop.

 

[Trever1t]

OCF = off camera flash.

Subject does look overexposed...and red.

 

[DisasterDan]

Thanks for the input!

 

[Derrel]

The bald, ugly white sky looks terrible. Also, his skin, and the belt, both appear over-exposed. These are what I would call "over-flashed".

In this type of situation, what looks better is to set the camera white balance to tungsten, place a fairly strong amber-colored gel over the flash head, and in that way, turn that ugly, blown-out,bald whiter sky into a BLUE sky. The sky just kills the shot, and with the flash synch limitation of your camera, it's hard to make the sky look darker without resorting to an advanced strobist technique like this.

 

[DisasterDan]

The bald, ugly white sky looks terrible. Also, his skin, and the belt, both appear over-exposed. These are what I would call "over-flashed".

In this type of situation, what looks better is to set the camera white balance to tungsten, place a fairly strong amber-colored gel over the flash head, and in that way, turn that ugly, blown-out,bald whiter sky into a BLUE sky. The sky just kills the shot, and with the flash synch limitation of your camera, it's hard to make the sky look darker without resorting to an advanced strobist technique like this.

I will definitely try this today and see how it comes out. I think a big factor was that there was NO sky at all due to overcast :er:, I should of waited for a better sky, or just a different location im thinking. Today i just picked up Steve Bavister's "Lighting for Portrait" so i will be reading that intensely over the next few days.

with the flash synch limitation of your camera, it's hard to make the sky look darker

Do you mind explaining further on that for me?

 

[sbakewell0508]

cant you just under expose the sky to show some detail and then fill in with the flash?

 

[Blake.Oney]

You camera's synch speed is how fast the shutter can be with flash for you start getting black in your photo's. The 60d's is 1/250 I believe.