Out the Window

December 13, 2009 | Filed Under photo 

Lot of stuff happening these days. Lighting/shot info below the photo

While setting up I couldn’t find my wireless trigger for the main rim flash, so I ended up using the Nikon CLS system instead. I don’t like to use it, at least not without an expensive SU800 unit, because the camera pop-up flash makes a 1/128 exposure in every shot; if you call Nikon to complain they’ll say that the pop-up does not make an exposure. It’s really easily testable and something to keep in mind when shooting dark areas and also when using gels on your main flashes. Not really noticeable, unless it’s a really dark shot like this (look at the shadow behind my left arm). In this case, though, I liked having a small fill light, and had I found my wireless trigger (which was in plain sight on the table) I probably would have set up another flash for a fill anyways.

Lights were left ungelled, and I just cooled down the white balance in-camera. I also didn’t expose it “properly” and bring everything down in photoshop. Found that my skin look a bit more translucent (in a way) if I actually under exposed the shot a bit. If I were to re-shoot this, I’d use a grid on the flash in front of my face to control the spill into the room a bit more. It’s not much of a spill, though, and I still like this shot as it is.

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