Ever wonder how magazine like photos are taken? Check out this simple DIY Briese like reflector, you can make some cool beauty style head shots with it. This is probably not the best example, and the parabolic reflectors are generally much larger than this one. But you might understand that just an ordinary cardboard reflector with aluminum foil pasted on the reflecting side, can produce pretty good results.
Yesterday I wanted to try some new techniques, and we had a 15-20 minutes express shoot with my friends. I used a bare flash on the left and a big silver reflector on the right.
Today I want to share some test shots of flash modifiers LumiQuest 80-20 and LumiQuest Mini Soft Box that I won in a contest. Also I tested two types of Bounce Cards: the regular and feather light (inspired by Peter Gregg www.abetterbouncecard.com). So lets begin.
Equipment:
Flash SB-600
Lens Nikon 50mm 1.8
Camera Nikon D80
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Today I want to share thees portrait lighting diagrams with you folks ! I think they will come in handy for someone. I made those from a book that is called “The book of light”, I didn’t found any diagrams in this book that’s why I made them from the description under every photo. Have fun !
Today I’ll post more videos about how to make water splash photos.
This video shows how to take water drop photos with 1 flash, a sheet of paper and a water tank, no fancy equipment needed !
Last week I attended a seminar about “One Light Photography”. It was a 6 hour long lecture and practice. The professional photographer showed us how to make cool high-class photos using only 1 light and the available lighting. It really inspired me and today I decided to try some techniques I learned on the seminar, so let’s see the results.
One Light First Experience 1
When I’ve got my Bowens kit I had just 1 reflector, umbrella and a softbox. After some time shooting I realized that I need a gridspot, so I went to a photo store with my kit reflector. The salesmen said that they don’t have the grid for my kind of reflector and also my reflector doesn’t support gridspots. He suggested me a reflector with a gridspot for $100.
I decided to share another set of photos, my “Playing with light” small strobes lighting practice.
Not long ago I bought the SB-600. As a true strobist (inspired by David Hobby and Bert Stephani) I made some light modifiers and started to experiment with my shots. This one is the best I’ve got from the first session. I used SB-600 at 1/4 power and a grid spot.
model: my wife.
gear: Fujifilm S1 Pro, Sigma 18-200, SB-600 + grid.
Playing With Light by slayerphoto is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0.
Based on a work at www.flickr.com.
For the test I used my new flash Nikon SB-600 without build in diffuser at 24 zoom. Flash was fired remotely by CACTUS V2s trigger. Photos was shot on my Nikon D80 with 18-200 zoom lens set at 24mm 60 f/4.2 .
