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Umbrella Comparison
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Experimenting with the differences between an umbrella in shoot thru configuration vs bounce configuration. Read a really great article by Don Giannatti, aka wizwow, from Lighting Essentials that really make me thing about this, so I decided to play around with it a bit today, and am pretty amazed at the differences! You can really see that the light does wrap around more with the bounce configuration, especially noticeable on the cheek to the right on the nose line and along the inside of the eye socket. Not sure why the image to the right has the blueish cast to it, both images were taken with the same camera settings, and adjusted the same in Lightroom. Gave up trying to figure it out for now, as it was not important to this whole exercise anyway...
Strobist info:
580EX II with 30" umbrella at 1/32 power, 24 mm, positioned at 45 degrees camera left. In both cases the diffusion material was 30 inches from the nose of the Styrofoam head, with the umbrella above and at an angle so that the rod pointed directly at the nose. Camera at 1/100, f/5.6 ISO 100.
Umbrella Comparison
Mike Dooley Photography | Facebook | Twitter | google+
©Mike Dooley Photography 2010 | All Rights Reserved | Please do not use without my permission.
Experimenting with the differences between an umbrella in shoot thru configuration vs bounce configuration. Read a really great article by Don Giannatti, aka wizwow, from Lighting Essentials that really make me thing about this, so I decided to play around with it a bit today, and am pretty amazed at the differences! You can really see that the light does wrap around more with the bounce configuration, especially noticeable on the cheek to the right on the nose line and along the inside of the eye socket. Not sure why the image to the right has the blueish cast to it, both images were taken with the same camera settings, and adjusted the same in Lightroom. Gave up trying to figure it out for now, as it was not important to this whole exercise anyway...
Strobist info:
580EX II with 30" umbrella at 1/32 power, 24 mm, positioned at 45 degrees camera left. In both cases the diffusion material was 30 inches from the nose of the Styrofoam head, with the umbrella above and at an angle so that the rod pointed directly at the nose. Camera at 1/100, f/5.6 ISO 100.