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Family Portraits – P365 Feb09
- At February 16, 2008
- By Neil Creek
- In People
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Tonight we had dinner with family at my sister’s. I was able to arrange an impromptu photo shoot to get up-to-date photos of some family, and first ever photos of my Uncle John and Aunt Bev.
Mum
Uncle John
Aunt Bev and Uncle John
Aunt Bev
Dad
Janet
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Lowell Christie
Neil,
Love the three-dimensional quality of these portraits. How about some information about the lighting setup.
Lowell
Neil Creek
Hi Lowell, thanks for the complement.
It’s a pretty simple setup. A Canon 580EX on 1/4 power through a white umbrella camera left, high, and a Vivitar 285HV on 1/16th power, bare, camera right, coming from an angle back behind the subjects. Both flashes are fired via cheap Cactus wireless remotes. The subjects are about 1.5M in front of a yellow painted wall.
The left light illuminates the subjects with a nice soft light. The back light ads a kicker to their cheeks and give a bit of separation from the background and enhances the 3D look, as you commented.