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28-DEC-2008 Martin Schiff

Kelly
by Martin Schiff

Shot at a session with makeup artist, Nicole Ferguson, who brought 4 models to be added to her makeup portfolio.

Lighting used was Canon 580EXII attached to an Ebay beauty dish as main and Canon 420EX with stofen diffuser for hair light.

Canon EOS 40D ,Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
1/200s f/8.0 at 85.0mm iso100 full exif

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Bruce Ward02-Jan-2009 01:16
This is underlighted. This is almost a low key look, and needs to be almost high key. The low key look would be fine for a portrait of her (not looking straight on) but for this shot (fashion or head shot type) you need more, even light. You're losing too much detail in the shadows. The key light should be placed straight in front of the model to give a butterfly look. The hair needs more light. Opening up to f/5.6 may have solved some of the problem.
Guest 01-Jan-2009 06:44
Beautiful clear image but I think because of the dark skin the shadow should be lighter. But you caught her expression very well.