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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fortkentdad" data-source="post: 433878" data-attributes="member: 24285">[ATTACH]147828[/ATTACH][ATTACH]147829[/ATTACH]One of the parents whom has worked for me in the past kindly gave permission to use my photo's of her son for illustration here. The photo shoot went well. This is my second in as many weeks - next one scheduled for July so two in two weeks is really odd.  I've done this only a few times in the past - always children (Santa and Easter Bunny).  In July it will be an elder's birthday with the whole family gathered - and that is to be my first paid shoot.  So far all volunteer at the children's centre. The lighting worked well enough.  I have a lot to learn yet about lighting.  Will need to study this topic much more, experiment in my basement where I can set up a mock shoot to learn from.  I did see that the last few shots were different - Someone (one of the children probably) moved my SB700 to face in rather than bounce off the gold reflector and it cast harsh side shadows.  I noticed the difference - not sure the parents will. The Cam-Light charge lasted the full three hours.  I had power just in case but did not need it.  And it did make a difference.  It was turned off during one of the Bunny's Cool Down Breaks (those costumes are very hot - glad I did not have hot lights on her).  Forgot to turn on the cam-light LED's when we resumed - noticed it pretty quickly and it did make a difference in fill light.  This was a very bright shoot with bright white costume and bright pastel background.  I used my 3D Matrix metering and Nikon's CLS TTL for flash control.  The on camera pop up was down 2.0 and the SB700 down 1.0 - the Metz was the primary light and was at + .3    I had the exposure comp at + 1/3  White Balance was manually set using the white dome style lens cap. Used my 60mm AF-S 2.8G and shot in Aperture Priority at F/9  (Wanted full detail, no background blurring).  ISO 400.  Using a prime meant moving the tripod back and forth when changing from sets with one child to whole families.  I also didn't tether it to my ASUS which I had thought of doing - good thing as I moved that camera around a fair bit. About 40 families went through in two hours and a bit.  A few of the children were too frightened by the bunny so we did family portraits without the bunny afterwards.  My dear wife was volunteered to be my lovely assistant and we signed in every family, and I shouted out the number range of the pictures to match the photos to families later.  We are emailing out the photos and printing up a complimentary 4x6.  I was in a side room, there was a full Easter party going in other parts of the centre.  It was fun and I learned a lot. And I did get asked to do that one photo shoot for a family reunion this summer.  Maybe when I retire I'll do this to fund my NAS.</blockquote>

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