Rob’s headshot

June 15, 2009 | Filed Under photo 

Rob’s an online journalist as well as a fiction author. I taped together a bunch of newspaper pages and used them as the background

Simple 2 light setup. Lighting idea was to have light coming down on him, but going up behind him, a sort of cross gradient of sorts. Didn’t take a pic of the lighting setup (we were running behind on playing a round of Buzz Quiz) but here’s the skinny:

- SB600 in a shoot-thru white umbrella, gelled tungsten. Umbrella was a few inches away from his face, upper left of frame, and it was pointing down as far as my stand would let me.
- SB28 on the ground under his chair, ungelled. Was pointing straight at the wall, no tilt, but it was a 24mm spread for the gradual up-light.

The bit of cold rim lighting on the right comes from the sb28 on the ground bouncing off my green walls. Ends up being bluish-greenish ’cause of the lack of gels on it.

Nikon D90 with a 50mm f/1.8 lens: ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/160. D-Lighting = “normal”, “standard” colour.

True to the Strobist Boot Camp II assignment, I got Rob to take my picture too once we were done: www.flickr.com/photos/photendo/3628390727/

Shot for Rob, and for the Strobist Boot camp assignment: strobist.blogspot.com/2009/06/boot-camp-ii-first-assignme…

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