Portraits with Paints

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I will be doing a portrait session on Friday with my niece and some friends. They will be dressed in white and on a white background and will have multi coloured 'paint bombs'. (not sure exactly how these will be constructed, they are looking after that end!) So I was just hoping for some tips or guide lines if anybody has done this kind of thing before.

My thoughts are that the flash will freeze the paint 'action' so there should be no diff's there. I will probably shoot at 1/160th to stay well within the range of the 1/200th sync speed of my D600 and stop down to about f11 or f16 if possible to maintain a good DoF as there will be multiple subjects. Was thinking of just lighting through umbrellas camera left and right (Bowens rx400s) as modelling isn't really important and this will just provide a nice even spread of light. Was also going to light the background (paper roll) with a couple of speed lights set at perhaps about ½ or ¼ power.

Any advice/tips appreciated. :)
 
Based on my very limited knowledge (no practical and just started reading Syl Arena's book before firing a flash in anger for the first time) your proposals sound ok to me but others are better placed to comment. So ....

.. my only contribution is to suggest that you find out a bit more about the 'paint bombs' and how excitable the kids are. Worst case scenario is that:

  • - the decoration of the room is ruined, and
  • - your camera equipment - including umbrellas - is covered in fine paint powder, or painty gooey stuff
 
planetjamez said:
Hope you dont want to keep the background!
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lol, it's disposable i guess. Well I'm hoping I will only have to cut a few meters of it!

Chris, yes the equipment is more of a concern. Had thought about my 70-200 but DoF!!!
 
Thanks for that one Ian. The UV filter & plastic bags will definitely be coming out now!
 
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