Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Day 152: Lighting Up

(Nikon D90, 35mm DX, f/4, 1/60, ISO 200, Flash @ 1/10 Manual)

As blogged a few days back I picked up a Lastolite 24" x 24" Ezybox Hotshoe Softbox.  Lacking a human subject, I fell back on the next best option: Dojobear and company (Stomp on the left, Chomp on the right).  Despite the extra equipment involved, setup to shot to teardown took less than twenty minutes.  Setting up the softbox takes little to no effort, then it's a matter of sliding the flash in and popping away!  Light is positioned about half a meter back from the subjects, camera left.  Went with 1/32 power first, was way under exposed.  Tried 1/16 next.  Better, but 1/10 really hit the spot.  

I was a bit surprised that it took so little time.  I decided to pop off one additional shot, of my Sigma 70-200 that's been seeing a lot of use lately.  Stopped down a bit for the lens, and thus had to up the power too.

(Nikon D90, 35mm DX, f/5.6, 1/200, ISO 200, Flash @ 1/5 Manual)

More later today.

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