Playing with Strobes

[jdsfighter]

Tony and I were messing around with strobes, just experimenting, here's a couple nice outcomes.

 

[PinkDoor]

In #2, the sharp contrast between the light of your neck/ear/finger is throwing me off

 

[GraemeReen]

Number 1 for me prefer the harsher tones.

 

[Big Mike]

In #2, the sharp contrast between the light of your neck/ear/finger is throwing me off

I agree. A slight turn of the head (to our left) would hide that ear and make it a better photo.

Looks like a fair amount of skin smoothing was applied for the 2nd one? I don't think that fits the mood of this photo. The lighting is bordering on extreme, it shows the texture and raw essence of the skin...so why kill that with processing?

 

[jdsfighter]

In #2, the sharp contrast between the light of your neck/ear/finger is throwing me off

I agree. A slight turn of the head (to our left) would hide that ear and make it a better photo.

Looks like a fair amount of skin smoothing was applied for the 2nd one? I don't think that fits the mood of this photo. The lighting is bordering on extreme, it shows the texture and raw essence of the skin...so why kill that with processing?

Actually, the only processing at all used to smooth the skin was removing a single blemish on my forehead with the spot removal tool. Other than that, that's exactly how it came out, due to how we lit the picture, it removed a lot of light from the side of my face.

 

[maxthorsson]

#1 -A really nice light setup, good job, great picture!