Little mini studio set up!

[farrance]

Hey all!

I don't think I've posted here before, but I wouldn't mind some C&C on my micro studio I set up today.

I've fallen quite ill so I decided to motivate myself a little bit by taking a couple of pictures of myself, I just wanted to find out what I can improve on!

Seeing as I only have the basics, I used my curtain as a backdrop and used as fast of a shutter speed as possible to isolate myself a bit better. As you can see, the flash was on the left of me at 1/128 with the big umbrella.

This was the final result, I hated the blue of the curtain so I mocked it into a more purple colour in lightroom and also changed the white balance to stop me looking to pale!

This was the final result, do excuse how groggy I look!

Any tips or advice to get more isolation? As in there is only a small spot of the subject lit up? And also general studio advice, basic do's and dont's!?

Thanks!

 

[daharro]

seems you've got some room, so maybe move yourself further away from the backdrop? that should make it darker (less light from the flash) and more out of focus. Try reading this aswell : http://strobist.blogspot.co.uk/2006/04/lighting-101-headshot-in-corner.html

not exactly what your doing, but not far off either.

 

[gary996]

As said step away from the back drop

 

[farrance]

seems you've got some room, so maybe move yourself further away from the backdrop? that should make it darker (less light from the flash) and more out of focus. Try reading this aswell : http://strobist.blogspot.co.uk/2006/04/lighting-101-headshot-in-corner.html

not exactly what your doing, but not far off either.

Thats a mighty helpful article!

I'll give that a go tonight and post up the results

 

[Phil V]

Sorry to be late with this - but it's a project for this afternoon.

That's a 2 light studio you have there

In that corner - with the spare blinds, here's what I'd do.

Create a primary light source with the windowlight, controlled with the curtains or other blackout material. Use a reflector to control the depth of the shadows.

Then you can use the flash as a rimlight to help with the separation.

Alternatively, use the flash as keylight and the window as a rimlight, or the window as a large lit background etc. You can see all the other alternatives now.