A couple of Portraits

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A couple of Portraits

Postby CraigVTR on Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:03 pm

A couple of portraits of my eldest daughter taken on our back verandah area.

These were lit with an sb800 through an umbrella just off to camera right, sunlight from behind the subject and a white card reflector just to the subject left. The sb800 was in remote mode fired by an on camera sb800 in master mode pointing straight up. There may be some bounce off the on camera flash from the roof. I need to do this type of shoot some more to allow me to understand the sb800 better. Reading tfm properly may help as well. :)

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500 @ f9 200iso Nikkor 50mm1.4
I selected the fast shutter speed to have the background sky correctly exposed. I adjusted flash compensation at random to try and get the correct exposures. These were the pick of the bunch. The look on #4, counting left to right, is the "bitch stare". She does it well hey? That's my girl. :D
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