Recent content by rigsby1208

Yes I understand and I do generally update the light power when the depth of field required for the shot dictates it. Its really whether the light meter will take the shots to another level. I guess I need to learn more, particularly lighting ratios..any good instruction/youtube clips?

Hi I've got my own studio set up, with couple of softboxes, umbrella etc. Will getting a light meter really help much? I tend to shoot in manual and just set the studio lights on about mid power and then adjust the camera aperture in manual mode until the images look right in camera. If I...

Like people have suggested natural diffuse daylight, or a big softbox, close to the subject

The online set ups you have been looking arent much more than bits of card. I just use one large bit of card next to a window, gives great results.

I've got the Dell as well, beautiful monitor...strong colours and very sharp.

As an independent, the Lencarta kit looks good value.

I'm sure you will get lots of other advice on types of flash systems, modifiers etc, but some basic things like give at least one wall a fresh coat of matt white paint, also dont forget a reflector..it often eliminates the need for more than one flash.

OK, change the Width to 10cm and yes the Resolution went up to over 2000! So tried changing that, but the Width went back up to over 40cm again. The only way to stop it was to tick resample, which I thought was bad as you lost image quality. Is this the only way to get a smaller image then? Is...

OK, thats better thanks

Thanks, but cant find a supplier online? I'm uk based

OK, this is the image size after opening the raw image... pixel dimesions 63.3m width 5760 pixels Height 3840 pixels doc size width 60.96cm height 40.64 resolution 240

OK, so being a bit of a cheapskate here, but any recommendations for a cheapish but good 140cm softbox? Its not going to be used professionally so doesnt need to be that rugged, but I would like it to do a decent job?

I nearly went Canon to Nikon...I liked the D800, then despite the better ultimate picture quality I felt the canon 5d mk3 was a better all rounder that could do sports etc well, as well as studio work.

In my very humble view I would put forward that the 24-105 may not be the very last word in quality, but it is a good all purpose walk around lens, with quite a bit more reach than the other lenses mentioned.

Are there any good online guides to lightroom anyone can recommend?