[stephenmurphy]

November 7, 2009 at 11:17 pm

Wow, fantastic shots again. Will take your advice and post back. Just one more question, is there a need to use a speedlight attachment for portraits or should I rely purely on the softboxes without any camera flash?. Thanks again mate.

[stephenmurphy]

November 6, 2009 at 3:52 pm

Thanks photOvidiu, I have 2 x softboxes, If I place one in front of the subject, would this not give a shadow effect on the white canvas. Also, you mentioned placing the second light behind the subject. Where exactly should the light point, directly at the canvas from the side? I notice in your attachments you have two softboxes which appear to point to the front of a subject.
If i used the two lights pointing to the back of the canvas from both sides and a flashgun on the camera, would you think this would give the desired effect?.

P.S, The attached photo looks very good and is exactly what I need to achieve,
On another note, where did you get the backdrop from?, I have a white muslum backdrop but very hard to reduce creasing, is yours paper / portable.
Many thanks for your help.

[stephenmurphy]

October 26, 2009 at 5:15 pm

Thanks Johnny, good bit of info here, well done.

[stephenmurphy]

September 30, 2009 at 9:03 pm

Looks like this was done using the lamp from a video camera. As its a constant light you can illuminate the center profile and illiminate the need for a camera flash which can sometimes lead to over exposure. Ive seen this become very popular with wedding photography and some famous weding photographers around the world now use this method.