This is Vidya, my wife. She agreed to be my model today, even though we're both more than ready to hit the sack.After work today we met a uni mate for dinner. We had planned to meet in Castle Towers, which is basically across the other side of town. For us, all the action seems to happen across town! We live South West of Sydney, just east of Liverpool, and all of our mates are either in "town" proper, or in the Hills. So we spend a lot of time traveling. To make it even better, Vids works in Camden, I work in Penrith and Kemps Creek. We spend a LOT of time in the car.
Today I was toying with "clam-shell" type set-ups. to see what I could come up with. I learned a lot from these pics. To get less shadow I need to have been between the umbrellas - here I was ever so slightly to the right of the umbrellas. This caused the shadow on the left side (ride side of photo) of the models face, which, for clam-shell is a big no no. Also I should have pulled the fill up to the same power as the main. There's no real rules for clam-shell, but I guess ideally there would be little shadow and mostly flat, even lighting.
60" umbrella at 7:00 high, 42" umbrella 7:00 low, softboxes at 10:00 and 2:00, blue gelled flash at wall (drowned out by umbrellas).
Played with tones in Photoshop, smoothed skin a little. Otherwise very little work (2 minutes max) in Photoshop.
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