Day 249 – Portrait Lighting Practice

Maybe I should hire a model?  The shoot I thought I was going to do may not come to fruition, so you are stuck with me again.  I’m working on getting the lighting right: no weird shadows,  getting highlights in hair, and creating shape.

Okay…set up:  Soft box at 45 degree angle to subject (me) at camera right. Light was about 6-feet high and angled down (that’s the light that you see on the top of my head).  Light over my shoulder was my Speedlite at about 1/8 intensity bounced from umbrella.  Pop-up flash at lowest intensity (1/124) used to fire Speedlite, but at that intensity did little add illumination.

 

 

In the shot below the Speedlite did not fire, but I still like the lighting in this one.