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12/21/2006 12:29:15 AM · #26 |
Slow that shutter down to 1/125 and move her away from the wall some.
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12/21/2006 12:32:05 AM · #27 |
... and iso 100, but you knew that.
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12/21/2006 02:01:58 AM · #28 |
| Congrats, Jason, on the pregnancy! Good to get over these learning curves asap! :) |
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12/21/2006 10:21:43 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by idnic:
MUCH MUCH better!! Now - have her stand about 5 feet away from the back wall and you'll eliminate those ugly shadows and you'll be a rockin' cowboy! :) |
I wish I could. About 4ft from the wall is a large bed. This is presently being shot in the bedroom. I am in the process of slowly emptying out the garage in which I am going to set up a small studio. But this is a few months away and I wanted to capture photos early in on the pregnancy. So the bedroom it is...
I've got a light truss from my DJ equipment that I think will work perfectly for hanging a muslin. I also have some soft rubber exercise matts from karate that I am going to place on the floor. Won't be anything fancy...but at least I'll be able to place models 5 ft from the background.
;)
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12/21/2006 10:45:22 AM · #30 |
As a more general comment, when you are shooting with strobes there is two parts to the exposure.
One from the strobe
One from the ambient light
ISO affects both.
The strobe exposure is not changed by the shutter speed. That part of the exposure is varied by strobe power, distance and the lens aperture. The shutter speed has to be slower than the max sync speed (1/200th or 1/250th depending on the camera) but after that, shutter speed has nothing to do with the strobe exposure.
The ambient light exposure is varied by the aperture and shutter speed.
Just I saw in the first post a variety of very slow shutter speeds being used and different strobe powers, so I thought I'd mention that changing the shutter speed will do nothing for the strobe exposure strength (though will change the ambient exposure, particularly if you are using the strobe modeling lights)
Message edited by author 2006-12-21 10:46:54.
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12/21/2006 10:53:28 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Just I saw in the first post a variety of very slow shutter speeds being used and different strobe powers, so I thought I'd mention that changing the shutter speed will do nothing for the strobe exposure strength (though will change the ambient exposure, particularly if you are using the strobe modeling lights) |
Hi Gordon,
We traced the problem to the fact that the mounted flash was firing a pre-flash triggering the strobe flash to go off early. That's why if I took anything at slower than 1/5th a second @f/2.8 it was coming out dark. Because they were out of sync.
It was much improved once synced and I was easily able to use a 1/250th speed at high f/stop. It'll take me a few more times to get a good feel. But already it's much improved!
:) |
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