09 December 2011
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
yea, this is another of those boring technical blogs!
whatever fancy light-shaping tool I use, its always worth keeping the options open.... by open, I mean considering some of the simplest of ways to modify light.... one of the softest lights is created by bouncing from a large white surface... while wedding photographers use this as their main light almost all the time, there are problems associated with it.... one being the colour of the wall, which you can't change and the distance of the bouncing surface, which may just be too far from the camera or the subject... that way, it will eat up all the flash power and bounce only a small part of the light... and in worst case scenario, the light may not even come back to the lens!!.... anyway, my aim is not to show the drawbacks of such bounced light... rather utilising their potential in the presence of some sophisticated light-modifiers....
while the main light can give direction to the light, bounced lights can help cut shadows and contrasts.... even when using a big and broad light source as the Elinchrom 100cm Deep Octa, I kept an eye on the shadows, some of which I didn't want there.... yet, I wanted that light to be a bit directional....
the main light behind that big Deep Octa was the Elinchrom Ranger RX.... used a couple of YN-560s to bounce light off the white wall on the left.... two lights to make sure that I had sufficient frame rate.... I didn't want the YNs to struggle to cope up with the Ranger.... the YNs were in optical trigger mode (S1), picking up light from the Ranger.... the Ranger, on the other hand, was triggered by Elinchrom Skyport....
a lot more to come.....
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
yea, this is another of those boring technical blogs!
whatever fancy light-shaping tool I use, its always worth keeping the options open.... by open, I mean considering some of the simplest of ways to modify light.... one of the softest lights is created by bouncing from a large white surface... while wedding photographers use this as their main light almost all the time, there are problems associated with it.... one being the colour of the wall, which you can't change and the distance of the bouncing surface, which may just be too far from the camera or the subject... that way, it will eat up all the flash power and bounce only a small part of the light... and in worst case scenario, the light may not even come back to the lens!!.... anyway, my aim is not to show the drawbacks of such bounced light... rather utilising their potential in the presence of some sophisticated light-modifiers....
while the main light can give direction to the light, bounced lights can help cut shadows and contrasts.... even when using a big and broad light source as the Elinchrom 100cm Deep Octa, I kept an eye on the shadows, some of which I didn't want there.... yet, I wanted that light to be a bit directional....
the main light behind that big Deep Octa was the Elinchrom Ranger RX.... used a couple of YN-560s to bounce light off the white wall on the left.... two lights to make sure that I had sufficient frame rate.... I didn't want the YNs to struggle to cope up with the Ranger.... the YNs were in optical trigger mode (S1), picking up light from the Ranger.... the Ranger, on the other hand, was triggered by Elinchrom Skyport....
our model Naqvi was so spontaneous.... at six months, his expressions stole the show... we played with him with different themes... he shined in all of them.... he felt a bit drowsy at the end of the photo-shoot, but he was able to finish the session in good note.... we had to cut short the session a bit to accommodate his feeding and rest... in any case, for a baby session, its always the baby, who dictates the pace of the photo-shoot....
Naqvi was not a stranger in front of our lenses, as we already had another session with him a while back... he was adorable at that time, so as he is now....
a lot more to come.....
