A HDR Pano stitch portrait with off camera lighting and 2 full cut CTO is no easy feat.
Firstly I got the logistics all wrong.
Was more difficult to pull off than I first thought. I experimented on Isaac and Nathan. Not the most inanimate models in the world. I had fading light. And I had sand tossed at my camera…… hmmmm. I went over my sync speed. ooops. I could not quite get it together … produced an interesting image.
After the experiment was done. Time to get down to some serious one light strobin’. Flash with 2 full cut CTO on Camera Left. Full power setting. 1/250th @f/5 ISO 100. Tungsten Balance.
The boys at play.
The boys were playing with their lego bricks this evening and they needed help in building the tallest building in the world. So I stepped in. Being a big kid myself built the foundation and the rest of the design was up to the kids. Moments after I took this shot it all came down. Earthquake Isaac and poor construction was to cause.
Lil’ Isaac and Nathan have been feeling poorly since last weekend. Last night was the worst night for Isaac and us. I hope tonight he sleeps better.
Grid spot on his face to camera left.
The boys were watching Wallace and Gromit on my Mac and I decided that I’d take some shots while they remained relatively still. So I whipped out my light stand and I wanted to simulate late afternoon sun by shooting through the window. Unfortunately my cheapo transmitters would not even penetrate the walls. Too bad.
So I pulled the lights into house and I tried some variations. CTO direct. Grid Spot + CTO. 2 lights; Grid spot + CTO and Softbox. Varying power and distances and height. First shot taken at 6:18pm and the last shot was taken at 6:49pm…..and we were no where near any windows.
Isaac was playing peek-a-boo with me behind the couch. He was ducking every time I raised my camera. This is one isn’t perfect technically.
Shot at ISO 100. I rarely go that low. And even rarer is the 24 mm f 2.8 lens I was using. Not that its a rare lens but that fact that I hard ever use it. This time round I wanted to drop the exposure of the foliage outside the house down by at least a stop. I took an exposure for the outside scene and it measured off at ISO100 1/125th at f 4. I had to drop it down further. Final exposure was at 1/250th f 5.6 ISO 100 at 1/2 power flash firing into a soft box.
Here comes the mystery. There is a dark band on the right side of the pic. I am suspecting the sync speeds were a bit off this time round. Remains a mystery.
