Commercial bay, White Bear Lake, MN. The ice is almost all melted away. A couple months ago you could drive an SUV on the lake. Spring is back!
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Experimenting with various colored background studio strobe settings. Background is a roll of neutral grey studio background paper. Power at 1/8 with a light blue gel yields mid key portrait with blue colored background, power turn off yields low key portrait (i.e. almost black background), and power cracked up to 1/2 power yields high key portrait (i.e....
I did these in my studio today. I used a beauty dish overhead vertical +1f/s, not having a triflector I made an “active” triflector with two giant softboxes on each side of model, left and right at +0f/s. An large round sofbox sitting (no flash) on the floor at model’s feet provided the 3rd triflector...
This is my first experiment with colored lighting. I don’t own any gels (yet) so I grabbed a yellow sheet of paper and placed in front of the flash unit that is lighting the background. The background is a pale-blueish light grey studio background paper roll. Key is a beauty dish at 45 high (note...