Lighting 3 Advice Please

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Hi all.

My Neice as asked if would take a photo of her two lads for her Mum." Christmas coming" anyways I said I would give it a go. She then said her Sister will come along with her 2 week old so we could get a photo of all 3 (Nice) :-(

I have only really took images of one person at a time before and not really that many of them. That said they have been ok.
I know she will not be expecting anything mega but I wanna do the best I can.

I use a speedlight and softbox normally plus a reflector. I am concerned about coverage of light. That said I have loaned a Bowens flash head and softbox from the camera club which seldom gets used really, didnt know they would loan them out
I have not used it nor set it up before but it seems really easy. I had a play around with it last night and tried to mimic 3 people. Had to merge 2 images (sorry for the old bloke playing with a teddy) if you can get over that. Could anyone give some advice on wether I am on the right track. Would what I captured here do the job ?

The kids are a 5 year old, 14 months and maybe 3 weeks old by then.

Gaz

Lighting here was a Bowens head with a softbox plus reflector.

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On a technical level at least, kids are much easier than "mature" adults, simply because they have perfect skin and don't need the light to be soft.
What you did here was to put the light high and a bit off to the left, the lighting is possibly a bit harsh for your example subject but would work well for kids.
Maybe use your speedlight on camera as well, to add just a touch of fill.
 
Garry Edwards said:
On a technical level at least, kids are much easier than "mature" adults, simply because they have perfect skin and don't need the light to be soft.
What you did here was to put the light high and a bit off to the left, the lighting is possibly a bit harsh for your example subject but would work well for kids.
Maybe use your speedlight on camera as well, to add just a touch of fill.
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Thanks Garry. I was thinking the softbox was maybe a bit high as I could only see a tiny catchlight, yet the box is close. It is really quite feathered, so this would reduce the apperant size of the catchlight I assume. I tend to feather the softbox as it seems to work best that way and I wanted to keep light away from the background to some degree. I am shooting in a small space too.

Gaz
 
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