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This striking portrait of Lauraine is a combination of that sparkling mischievousness \u2026 and on the techie side, the selective focus of a wider aperture lens, and the flexibility\u00a0of continuous lighting. The f\/1.4\u00a0deliciousness of an\u00a085mm \u2013\u00a0the best lens to change your portrait photography<\/a>\u00a0– really brings her eyes to attention.<\/p>\n During this part of the\u00a0photo session in the studio<\/a>, I decided to use continuous lighting. Lauraine is new to modeling for the camera and working in the studio, and the lack of flashes popping, helped in keeping the atmosphere gentle. The shorter telephoto length of an 85mm lens, meant I could work close and give instruction on posing. Slight adjustments to her hand or the tilt of her head could be more easily relayed.<\/p>\n Lighting was with two Westcott Spiderlites:<\/p>\n I used the softbox in the background as a hair light and to spill a little bit of light on the background.<\/p>\n The background is this 4 panel room divider screen (purchased via Amazon<\/a>). Spilling a bit of light on it, and angling it properly, it allowed a hint of color and texture in the background, making the final setting for the portrait series a little more nuanced.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The pull-back shot shows the placement of the lights. The continuous light makes it so much easier to adjust the lighting and adjust the pose \u00a0– for me, even more so than the modeling lights of studio lighting would, since what you see is truly what you get.<\/p>\n I used 5 Daylight balanced + 1 Incandescent bulb in the Td6 so that the light from it goes a little warmer. The background Td3 only has Daylight bulks in it, so in the final editing where the color balance of the image is adjusted, the hair light \/ background light goes a touch colder.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lighting & Design<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a\u00a0follow-up of sorts to Direction & Quality of Light<\/a>.\u00a0It\u2019s a slightly eclectic mix, discussing the thought-process with various scenarios shooting portraits. The examples use available light, bounce flash, off-camera flash as well as studio lighting.<\/p>\n The idea is that in every one of the 60 sections, there is something to be learnt and applied, regardless of your level as a photographer or where you shoot\u00a0\u2013 all\u00a0shaped to form a cohesive narrative arc throughout the book.<\/p>\n You can either purchase a copy via\u00a0Amazon USA<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0or Amazon UK<\/a><\/strong>. The book\u00a0will\u00a0also available on the Apple iBook Store, and Amazon Kindle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Portraits with continuous lighting – Westcott Spiderlites This striking portrait of Lauraine is a combination of that sparkling mischievousness \u2026 and on the techie side, the selective focus of a wider aperture lens, and the flexibility\u00a0of continuous lighting. The f\/1.4\u00a0deliciousness of an\u00a085mm \u2013\u00a0the best lens to change your portrait photography\u00a0– really brings her eyes to Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[480,613,136],"tags":[614,615,233,481],"yst_prominent_words":[5613,5596,1493,3770,10322,1140,6845,1142,1143,1058,5616,5622,3766,1156,1537,1667,1135,5600,1133,3775],"class_list":{"0":"post-18372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-continuous-lighting","8":"category-lauraine","9":"category-studio-photography","10":"tag-continuous-lights-for-portraits","11":"tag-spiderlites-in-the-studio","12":"tag-westcott-spiderlite","13":"tag-westcott-spiderlite-td6","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18372"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45982,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372\/revisions\/45982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18372"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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