Sunday, October 2, 2011

Lighting done right: Straight out of the camera

Here's a highlight from 342 last week. Everyone was excited and unanimously proud of everything we did on friday. Both of these images are unaltered RAW files, resized and sharpened for web with NIK Sharpener Pro.
White balance was set to 5500K in-camera, instead of 5600k/daylight, so the gold reflectors wouldn't make Cindy appear too warm. Everyone was so happy with just using reflectors for key/fill from the sunlight that probably half of everything we did ended up being reflector lit. I think we all learned a lot about how much you can do before the exposure to get great results without resorting to RAW adjustments and photoshop.
  • Canon 1D Mk III, 70-200/2.8L IS
  • 1/500th @F/4.0, ISO 160
  • 8x (3 stop) ND filter + B&W Circular polarizer (2 stop light loss)
  • Canon 1D Mk III, 70-200/2.8L IS
  • 1/400th @F/4.0, ISO 160
  • 8x (3 stop) ND filter + B&W Circular polarizer (2 stop light loss)
  • 1 comment:

    Ian van Coller said...

    You guys are getting some great quality lighting. Nice work.