The problem with my set-up caused light to spill on my backdrop. I shoot with the K10D, so I don't need a hot shoe remote to trigger the flash. Instead, the wireless flash is controlled by the in-camera flash. Because the wireless flash required my in-camera flash to fire, extra light showed up in my photos (even though I had a card in front of the in-camera flash to block the subject from the light). You can see this in the example below.
After going back to the drawing board I doubled the size of my backdrop, allowing me to double the distance of the smoke from the backdrop. Then I placed the flash in a small white box to effectively direct all the light toward the subject. Again covering the in-camera flash with a card I was able to produce much better results the second time around.
I call this one Pregnant Woman:
This is one of my favorites from the shoot:
After going back to the drawing board I doubled the size of my backdrop, allowing me to double the distance of the smoke from the backdrop. Then I placed the flash in a small white box to effectively direct all the light toward the subject. Again covering the in-camera flash with a card I was able to produce much better results the second time around.
I call this one Pregnant Woman:
This is one of my favorites from the shoot:
6 comments:
I still cannot get over how cool these shots are! I am going to show your blog to my Custom Images students, so you may get some of them browsing around!
Beautiful smoke shot! Well done
Very cool...how did you get the variety of colors?
Thank you. The multi-colored smoke image is a compilation of six different photos. I chose six streams I thought would look good with each other and put them together.
pretty cool..how did you get the white background? Photo shop?
Thank you. The photo was taken in the dark with a black background to prevent any light from showing. Photoshop was used to invert the colors, replacing the black with white.
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