day 246 - one off

just a one-off. pretty much the same setup as day 245, just with no colored gels. i wanted to see the double diffuser in action without color. looks pretty good, i think.

day 245 - light from back corner

lit from the back sidish area.... at this aperture (1.8) tiny bits of light are crazy bright, so i had to double diffuse my main, first into the softbox, then into 40" disc diffuser. that cut it down a few stops, and kept the light source big, which is what i wanted.

awesomely out of focus setup shot:

day 244 - looking up

yep. getting bored with the same old camera angles, but being on a tripod has it's limitations. so for this one i hand held the tripod/light stand and clicked until something looked good.

setup shot:

day 243 - super contrast

not too sure about this. very contrasty, but didn't quite get to that "graphical element" level.

setup shot:

day 242 - dark smoothness

this is a softbox above, angled down and a reflector below, reflecting back up. the result was a very wrapping light quality, with a lot of shadows. i dropped the picture into imagenomic's portraiture and massaged the sliders a bit to get a higher contrast but not noisy image.

setup shot:

day 241 - soft w' a kick

setup shot:

day 240 - softbox no diffuser

this is using the softbox without it's front screen diffuser.... all that's left is the reflective softbox shape, which results in a very crisp almost beauty dish light on the subject. very strong, very contrasty. i setup the trigrip reflector camera left to lower the contrast a bit, and that's it.

setup shot: