Today I want to share two photos with you, and pass on some of the set up info that I had never tried before until I took these photos. Now don't get me wrong, these 'tricks of the trade' that I used are old hat, used by many people before me. But these photos represent the first time I used them, so to me they represent a milestone in my development as a photographer.
First a photo, then the set up..
I had never used gels before so on this shoot I decided to give them a try. The main light was a Sunpak 422d fired through a shoot thru umbrella with 1 1/4 cut CTO (orange) gels placed close (just out of the shot) on the camera right. I don't recall, but the power setting was probably 1/4 or 1/2.
A collapsible white reflector was placed close to the subject on camera left and directly below the camera angled up towards the subject.
The background (a grey painters drop cloth) was illuminated by a Olympus FL36 with a blue gel on it. The background flash was set at camera right, behind the subject and angled at the cloth background. To get the texture within the blue light I aimed the flash thru a stack of water glasses that were embossed with bubble shapes.
The camera was set on tungsten white balance to cancel out the CTO's orange effect and to bring out the blue on the background.
All in all I was quite happy with the final product and more importantly, so were the clients.
Both photos: Olympus E-510, F6.7 at 1/30
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