Making progress!

Well, I am making progress! Here's the best of what I've worked on today... my scruffy hubby! He's in a drama at church on Sunday and he has to be scruffy... I really like this photo of him! Anyway... I'm nailing exposure which I'm very proud of. I've been working on that for a VERY long time! I wish I had gotten a light meter sooner! So now hubby is going to help me fashion a softbox of sorts to surround my big diffuser to try and get nice clear catch lights. They are fuzzy here, but I think the light looks better than yesterday. What do you think?

Oh, and this is why you get to see hubby and not a kiddo!



And a black and white for good measure... playing with my conversion technique...

Diffusion panel?

Well, I went out and got some Sport Nylon today to fashion a diy diffuser. This is my first try, but I'm not overly happy with it... I used a set up I found suggested somewhere, however, I don't like it. But, it' s a place to start! I used one strobe straight in front of him bounced into an umbrella behind the nylon (the nylon was doubled over and about 2ft by 6 ft) I used an umbrella for fill to the side, but I don't like it because of the 2nd catchlight. I'll do some more playing tomorrow! I'm struggling with how to get enough light to expose moving children correctly, but not getting the lighting too flat.

Saturday is my first paid job! I'm looking forward to it! I won't have a lot of time to post between now and then, so most likely I will update after the dance shoot!

The Pout

Here's some more white work. This is a bit putsy with having to mask and blow out the background. Looking forward to the time when I can buy an additional light and softbox so I can blow the background while shooting. Unless someone has an easier way in PS this is just way too time consuming. Kinda fun to play with an image or two though...

We have an official pouter in the family (besides me that is!) Our littlest man has perfected the expression... caught this one as this expression is usually what I get when I ask him to pose!