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<blockquote data-quote="Dangerspouse" data-source="post: 790998" data-attributes="member: 46690"><p>So I recently purchased a studio strobe, and thought I'd give it a trial run yesterday. Since I intend it for mostly portraits and product photography, I set up my ever willing test subject "Heady Lamar" on the table and put a shoot-through umbrella on the strobe.</p><p></p><p>I've never used a strobe before, so the fact that the "instruction booklet" included with the unit was both extremely shy of "instruction" AND plagued by an over abundance of Engrish, meant it took me a while to set things up and figure out how to fire the damn thing.</p><p></p><p>Once I did, I then needed to play with the settings just to see how it worked.</p><p></p><p>What I did first was the time honored portrait technique of leaving the flash off and adjusting the camera settings so everything is almost pitch black. That takes ambient light out of the equation, meaning you have 100% control of the light in the shot just by adjusting the flash intensity (and any modifiers).</p><p></p><p>This is what that looked like for this test:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]379988[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Perfect. I turned the strobe on and took my first shot:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]379989[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Wow. A completely different experience than using soft boxes. But I certainly wasn't happy with the heavy shadows, so I started to work on it. I figured I could turn the strobe around and bounce the light off a wall, and move Heady and the lamp farther from the backdrop. I took Heady off the table, and when I turned back around to grab the lamp....</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]379990[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]379991[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>*<em>sigh</em>*</p><p></p><p>So much for that session. </p><p></p><p>I fired off a couple more shots, and figured I might as well enter one of them in the "Caption" weekly challenge going on since at least a couple are in focus. I had intended to use a perfected Heady + Light picture, titled "Light Headed", but I dunno if it will work as well with a Dell picture. The shot above might have been good for that title, but it's out of focus. Maybe one of these:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]379992[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]379993[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I didn't move the strobe for those, so there is still the heavy shadow thing going on. But waddaya gonna do. Sometimes life hands you lemons. Or a 17 pound cat....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dangerspouse, post: 790998, member: 46690"] So I recently purchased a studio strobe, and thought I'd give it a trial run yesterday. Since I intend it for mostly portraits and product photography, I set up my ever willing test subject "Heady Lamar" on the table and put a shoot-through umbrella on the strobe. I've never used a strobe before, so the fact that the "instruction booklet" included with the unit was both extremely shy of "instruction" AND plagued by an over abundance of Engrish, meant it took me a while to set things up and figure out how to fire the damn thing. Once I did, I then needed to play with the settings just to see how it worked. What I did first was the time honored portrait technique of leaving the flash off and adjusting the camera settings so everything is almost pitch black. That takes ambient light out of the equation, meaning you have 100% control of the light in the shot just by adjusting the flash intensity (and any modifiers). This is what that looked like for this test: [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]379988._xfImport[/ATTACH] Perfect. I turned the strobe on and took my first shot: [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]379989._xfImport[/ATTACH] Wow. A completely different experience than using soft boxes. But I certainly wasn't happy with the heavy shadows, so I started to work on it. I figured I could turn the strobe around and bounce the light off a wall, and move Heady and the lamp farther from the backdrop. I took Heady off the table, and when I turned back around to grab the lamp.... [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]379990._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]379991._xfImport[/ATTACH] *[I]sigh[/I]* So much for that session. I fired off a couple more shots, and figured I might as well enter one of them in the "Caption" weekly challenge going on since at least a couple are in focus. I had intended to use a perfected Heady + Light picture, titled "Light Headed", but I dunno if it will work as well with a Dell picture. The shot above might have been good for that title, but it's out of focus. Maybe one of these: [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]379992._xfImport[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" width="30%"]379993._xfImport[/ATTACH] I didn't move the strobe for those, so there is still the heavy shadow thing going on. But waddaya gonna do. Sometimes life hands you lemons. Or a 17 pound cat.... [/QUOTE]
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