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My first communion (photoshoot..)
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Hi,
Recently invested in an Elinchrome studio kit. So, invited some family over for my first photoshoot. C&C very welcome.
Sorry for including so many shots, just wanted to give a flavour of the way the shoot went.
You got some nice expressions here and the light looks great. I’m sure the family would be more than happy with those. Number 2 and 4 look the best to me, not sure about the last one looks a little overexposed and stiff.
These look great. I’d be delighted with them. What was your setup for the background, and how far was it positioned behind the kids ? Did you just use one light or one main and one fill ?
I just picked up an Elinchrom kit myself in Gunn’s last week but I don’t have any backgrounds yet.
Thanks!
I had a main and a fill. Since they are both 500W strobes, the fill was set to 2 and the main was set to 3.2 (I think), ie set quite low as the shoot was done in my sitting room. Both lights were at approx 45 degrees to the kids and at about head height. The background was a dark blue sheet set about 3ft behind the kids but since my shutter speed was set to 1/250s and no strobe light fell on the background, it effectively came out black. I just hung it over the curtain rail that was already there.
From the sounds of it you bought the exact same kit that I purchased from Gunn. It was a lot of fun. Can’t wait to do some more, maybe using (pure) white background for some high key shots.
I think mine might be 400W. It’s the D-Lite 4 kit. But like yourself I’m working in a small area so have them turned down quite low. My experiments so far are high key, using a white bed sheet as a background (after lots of ironing!). I’ll have to find a darker background for the next shots.
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