Sunday, June 5, 2011

Pockets of Light

Today's exercise was about pockets of light instead of big washes from softboxes, octobanks and other big light sources. The idea was to use small strobes with snoots to zero in on small areas to be lit. Specifically an overhead flash mounted on a boom arm lighting just a portion of my face and the immediate area where I was standing. The other snooted flash head would be zeroing in on my feet or leg area. Directly behind me is a bare flash acting as rim light and another on my rear right for additional rim lighting. I started setting up today at around 3pm with the following setttings:
f5 , 1/250 sec , ISO 200 , prefocused to a plane where I approximately would be standing and then set to manual focus after that. I also want to mention that due to having carpal tunnel, I was aiming for straight out of the camera shots since I can't do any photoshop editing at the moment.
Over all a satisfying 5 hours and definitely good for the soul.