Maria on Halloween - Two Different Looks
My wife likes Halloween so it was an opportunity for her to dress up, and we decided to document her costume after going to friends' house to see the trick or treaters. We live in a rural neighborhood with no street lights and no trick or treaters.
I used the same lighting setup for both pictures, and only varied the camera settings a little. Most of the difference in the appearance is due to the poses and the way I treated the images in Photoshop CC. For the image on the right, I used Nik Sofware's Silver Efex Pro to do the yellowish black and white old timey conversion. These pictures were taken no more than five minutes apart.
I lit this with one YN560 in a 24 inch soft box camera left and very close to Maria. Fill light came from a large silver disc reflector. The flash was in manual mode and was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. If I wanted to make the one on the right even harsher, I could have used a bare flash and moved it farther away. The rule of thumb is that the larger the light source and the closer it is to the subject the softer that light is.
Other portraits that I've taken, either by design or by luck, are in my creatively titled Portrait album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157661525864981
Maria on Halloween - Two Different Looks
My wife likes Halloween so it was an opportunity for her to dress up, and we decided to document her costume after going to friends' house to see the trick or treaters. We live in a rural neighborhood with no street lights and no trick or treaters.
I used the same lighting setup for both pictures, and only varied the camera settings a little. Most of the difference in the appearance is due to the poses and the way I treated the images in Photoshop CC. For the image on the right, I used Nik Sofware's Silver Efex Pro to do the yellowish black and white old timey conversion. These pictures were taken no more than five minutes apart.
I lit this with one YN560 in a 24 inch soft box camera left and very close to Maria. Fill light came from a large silver disc reflector. The flash was in manual mode and was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. If I wanted to make the one on the right even harsher, I could have used a bare flash and moved it farther away. The rule of thumb is that the larger the light source and the closer it is to the subject the softer that light is.
Other portraits that I've taken, either by design or by luck, are in my creatively titled Portrait album.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157661525864981