Studio Portraits with D7 - Comments welcome

Cormack · Jan 7, 2002

I made these photos using my D7 and 2 1000w tungsten lights with a white background.
The average aped was 1/30 and 4 for aperture.
I set the levels in Photoshop and resize the images.

http://public.fotki.com/Cormack/d7_portraits_01/

Please note: This album has some bikini and glamour photos. If this offends you, please do not visit it.

Comments are welcome

Thank you

Bryan Biggers · Jan 7, 2002

Wern't they really hot? The lights I mean

Bryan

Cormack said:
I made these photos using my D7 and 2 1000w tungsten lights with a
white background.
The average aped was 1/30 and 4 for aperture.
I set the levels in Photoshop and resize the images.

http://public.fotki.com/Cormack/d7_portraits_01/

Please note: This album has some bikini and glamour photos. If this
offends you, please do not visit it.

Comments are welcome

Thank you

Mark Pernal · Jan 7, 2002

Very nicely done. I've wondered how the D7 would do in studio work. Unfortunately I myself am a simple amateur and only do landscapes, but I love seeing others work like yours. Keep up the excellent studio work!!!

--Mark PernalAustin, TX http://home.austin.rr.com/floridasurfer/ http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=425021http://community.webshots.com/user/fotobuftx

Cormack · Jan 7, 2002

It's summer here in Brazil and the lights are really very hot. Yesterday I made other photos using 3 1000W lights to get a better shutter speed/aperture, but i'm really looking to a flash solution to use my strobes.

Cormack

Bryan Biggers said:
Cormack said:

I made these photos using my D7 and 2 1000w tungsten lights with a
white background.
The average aped was 1/30 and 4 for aperture.
I set the levels in Photoshop and resize the images.

http://public.fotki.com/Cormack/d7_portraits_01/

Please note: This album has some bikini and glamour photos. If this
offends you, please do not visit it.

Comments are welcome

Thank you

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Cormack · Jan 7, 2002

Thank you Mark, i'm very glad you liked

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Mark Pernal said:
Very nicely done. I've wondered how the D7 would do in studio
work. Unfortunately I myself am a simple amateur and only do
landscapes, but I love seeing others work like yours. Keep up the
excellent studio work!!!

--
Mark Pernal
Austin, TX
http://home.austin.rr.com/floridasurfer/
http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=425021
http://community.webshots.com/user/fotobuftx

MikeD · Jan 7, 2002

Nice shots, Cormack. I liked the accuracy of the skin colors. Did you use manual WB with the tungsten lamps??
Mike

Cormack said:
Mark Pernal said:

Very nicely done. I've wondered how the D7 would do in studio
work. Unfortunately I myself am a simple amateur and only do
landscapes, but I love seeing others work like yours. Keep up the
excellent studio work!!!

--
Mark Pernal
Austin, TX
http://home.austin.rr.com/floridasurfer/
http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=425021
http://community.webshots.com/user/fotobuftx

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Mike Roberts · Jan 7, 2002

no text damn it

Dave Adams · Jan 7, 2002

I'll say here what I said at one of your photo's. You need catch lights in the eyes to add life to the photo as well as sparkle. You can also try this: move your lights close together with white shower curtains in front of them. As close as you can get without causing flare in the camera. You will get a "cats eye" look to her. You don't need to spend much money: Shower curtains (2), Aluminum coat racks on wheels (2) and that's it. At Wal-Mart the costs are 4.95 and 12.95 respectively. $36.00 total. I use this setup with white lighting strobes, a background flash and hair light. With Dimage 7 it takes some fooling around to get all the strobes to flash. Sorry to be preachy but I've been doing this for 20 years. Dave

Cormack · Jan 8, 2002

Hi Dave, thank you for the tips.

You're right about the catch lights. These photos I made with static lights, so I could note move the lights because I was alone.

I made another session with a different model (portraits and artistic nudes) with my assistant moving the lights. I had much better results.

As soon I get the authorization from the model, I'll put a link for the new photos.

Cormack

Dave Adams said:
I'll say here what I said at one of your photo's. You need catch
lights in the eyes to add life to the photo as well as sparkle. You
can also try this: move your lights close together with white
shower curtains in front of them. As close as you can get without
causing flare in the camera. You will get a "cats eye" look to her.
You don't need to spend much money: Shower curtains (2), Aluminum
coat racks on wheels (2) and that's it. At Wal-Mart the costs are
4.95 and 12.95 respectively. $36.00 total. I use this setup with
white lighting strobes, a background flash and hair light. With
Dimage 7 it takes some fooling around to get all the strobes to
flash. Sorry to be preachy but I've been doing this for 20 years.
Dave

Cormack · Jan 8, 2002

Hi Mike,

I use the auto WB. I tried the manual WB, but decided to use the auto settings due to a little better skin reproduction with this lamp set up.

Cormack

MikeD said:
Cormack said:

Mark Pernal said:

Very nicely done. I've wondered how the D7 would do in studio
work. Unfortunately I myself am a simple amateur and only do
landscapes, but I love seeing others work like yours. Keep up the
excellent studio work!!!

--
Mark Pernal
Austin, TX
http://home.austin.rr.com/floridasurfer/
http://www.photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=425021
http://community.webshots.com/user/fotobuftx

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