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cameraNIKON D600

settings Aperture f/11.0 ISO 100 Shutter 1/200 

upload_dateMay, 2014

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10 Comments |
vojce
 
vojce September 28, 2014
awesome portrait
iceman2
 
iceman2 September 28, 2014
Excellent portrait.Congrats!
PennyWinn
 
PennyWinn September 28, 2014
Beautiful
sweetpea72
 
sweetpea72 September 28, 2014
Fantastic shot.. Congrats! ")
AlanJakarta
 
AlanJakarta September 28, 2014
Great portrait. Congratulations on being Featured.
redwriter Platinum
 
redwriter October 01, 2014
Great portrait. Congrats. - Jake
BrianpSlade
 
BrianpSlade October 03, 2014
A very nice portrait with great contrast....lovely editing too by the way!....Well done and congrats!....Brian
Anneja
 
Anneja October 11, 2014
Soo cool
rubenr
 
rubenr August 18, 2015
Great shot! It looks like a young Enrique Bunbury... a spanish singer!
r----s
 
r----s September 28, 2016
Thanks all for the lovely comments

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Behind The Lens

Location

This was taken in a basement of my friends house. This is their son who was willing to help me out during one of my first shots with strobes.

Time

The photo was taken against a black backdrop and during the day

Lighting

As you can see two Elinchrom softboxes where used with 2 Elichrom RX4 strobes.

Equipment

The photo was taken with my (now sold) Nikon D600 and 70-200mm F2.8 lens. I didn't use a tripod as the basement was big enough to walk around and shoot from different angles.

Inspiration

As this was one of the first time I shot with strobes and created some sort of studio I was initially all over the shop but after a while things started to make sense and everybody started to relax and have some fun. That's how this shot came about

Editing

I used Apple's Aperture software at this stage and removed some spots, darkened the blacks and "colour graded" the image to the blue-ish tone (was my first time I actually trying to do something different). That took about 10-15 minutes.

In my camera bag

Depends on the type of photos. For landscape I take 10-24, filters, tripod, release cable. For portraits I take 56 and 90mm, LED lighting panles (moved away from strobes), bounce card. I'm now a Fuji X-T1 user as my back was getting sore from the heavy DSLR and lenses. LED light panels with battery packs make it quick and easy to set up.

Feedback

My advice for starters with strobes etc: Keep things simple when you start out by using minimal lighting (I actually started using one light for a while afterwards). Slow down and if you are a starter like me explain that to the people you are shooting with prior to the session. Make lots of mistakes! Try different things; settings, use the modelling lights as well (make sure to change the white balance!), use props, watch some basic lighting videos, make lots of mistakes, and make some more mistakes! They will become less and less after a while. I also shoot tethered and THAT helps a great deal. Looking at a 15inch or bigger screen compared to that little LED screen at the back of your camera. If you shoot RAW then don't be disheartened by the initial image that come up as it might look flat. Post processing is part of the digital age.

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