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Family Portraits – P365 Feb09

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.
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Mum

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Uncle John

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Aunt Bev and Uncle John

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Aunt Bev

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Dad

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Janet

2 comments

  • Lowell Christie

    Neil,

    Love the three-dimensional quality of these portraits. How about some information about the lighting setup.

    Lowell

    February 18, 2008
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  • 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.

    February 21, 2008
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