Strobist info:

SB-24 with umbrella left with CTO

SB-28 bare right with CTO

tungsten white balance

White Balance CTO

Minolta Maxxum 100mm f2.8 Macro

YN5600III CTO grid camera right

Tanda masculina 55-61-89 Cto España Junior

Ok, the Forbes Portrait was still missing something (not talking about the suit here). Neither was the sky dramatically blue nor was the contrasting face really orange. So I thought I'd overdo it for a change and put two full CTOs on the flash. The first to convert the flash to the tungsten white balance that turned the sky into this rich blue and a second to get a warmer skin tone for colour contrast. Result: Not enough power. So I added another flash. And here we go: It's completely overdone. I guess next time I'll try 1 1/2 CTO for this.

Shot at f/11, 1/250s, ISO100 for (slightly) underexposed sky.

Strobist info: See next image in stream for setup. Two flashes from camera left at full power through 2 CTO gels (2 for each) and an umbrella. A2-sized white reflector taped to open door to camera right to bring up the shadows.

PP: Crop and levels. White balance was set to "tungsten" in camera and not changed in post.

Question: Why does my Sony A700 show a red-channel histogram that ends just a bit above medium gray (camera set to tungsten!) but ACR tells me I have to underexpose one and a half stops in order to prevent that channel to blow out???

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Experimenting with CTO gel and WB: Soligor 30D at 1/16 camera right with Rosco CTO, WB set to tungsten. The sky was overcast gray that late afternoon.

It's a test/experiment, so the subject is still me.