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I have a very annoying and unwilling subject for learning lighting and exposure-my dog, Mocha. Mocha is a Neapolitan Mastiff, and she hates the camera for some unknown reason.
So I used advice I got on here and talked with a professional buddy of mine about firing my optical slaves and settled on this advice-Put the camera in Manual, Set the ISO at 200 (the lowest my camera goes), set the f-stop at f/8 and set the shutter speed to 100. From this site I got the advice to use my SB600 pointed straight up to fire the slaves stopped down to 1/64..
This little experiment made me realize just how important the right light is and that the flash alone doesn't do a damn thing for you in terms of creating a professional image.
Here's my baby with full frontal flash:
A pretty useless and overexposed picture...
And here is my setup-two tripod mounted flashes with translucent white umbrellas (these are two very cheap ($19.99 each) Quantaray MS-1 flashes):
And Here are two pictures of Mocha with the studio lighting used pretty properly. I want to thank all those who gave advice and encouraged me:
So I used advice I got on here and talked with a professional buddy of mine about firing my optical slaves and settled on this advice-Put the camera in Manual, Set the ISO at 200 (the lowest my camera goes), set the f-stop at f/8 and set the shutter speed to 100. From this site I got the advice to use my SB600 pointed straight up to fire the slaves stopped down to 1/64..
This little experiment made me realize just how important the right light is and that the flash alone doesn't do a damn thing for you in terms of creating a professional image.
Here's my baby with full frontal flash:
A pretty useless and overexposed picture...
And here is my setup-two tripod mounted flashes with translucent white umbrellas (these are two very cheap ($19.99 each) Quantaray MS-1 flashes):
And Here are two pictures of Mocha with the studio lighting used pretty properly. I want to thank all those who gave advice and encouraged me: