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Hello Everyone:

I don't get the opportunity to do beauty shots as much as I'd like but had one yesterday. I thought things turned out nice. Any comments, suggestions critique are always welcome. Nikon D300 85 1.8, 80-200 2.8 a beauty-dish and five more lights. Thanks for having a look!
Cheers, Pete

Kerbie:













Set up:



 
well set up , well exposed , well executed.
I am not really a fan of the blue gelled hairlight.
It just does not do it for me.
I really like the detail and post processing.

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Sam
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Did you use red gels on a gray paper to get that color background. The photos are very good and I appreciate seeing the setup.
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Tom
 
I like everything about these photos especially the one with the wind-blown hair. The girl is lovely as well.
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Martinto: It was a red gel on a grey backdrop; depending on the power (and the distance from the b/d) the red goes from an almost dark brown to 'hot' red. I thought the red works nicely with the brunette hair.
Cheers, Pete
 
Nice set up and I really like shots 1 and 3.

I do have a few reservations, however, that are purely a matter of personal taste.

I wouldn't use a blue gelled hair light on the models right and a non-jelled hair light on her left. I would gel both lights the same, or not use gels at all.

Since the background was darker on the model's right side, I would have made the hair light on the model's right side stronger than the one on her left to set her off from the background better.
 
There is a difference between loss of texture and sharpness though. So you need to make her skin look soft and smooth without making her hair blend into a blob. A bit of PP usually to smooth the skin and sharpen the hair will do the trick. Also sharpen the eyes for dramatic effect.
 
Great lighting. Very well done.

This model has some male attributes in her face which can make it hard to shoot her. Cheekbones, upper arms, ...

I personally dislike the tilted/slanted mouth in the first shot.

thanks for sharing
 
Oh man there not much hope for the hobbyist.

Great lighting and execution too bad you used 5 strobes. :)

I gotta get one more I currently have 4. So I can play too. ;)
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what's a beauty-dish? Terrific pictures, and I appreciate your showing the setup.
 
Nicely done all around. Any criticism would just be personal taste I think.

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'Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.' ~ Winogrand
 
Hey,

Can I be rude and ask what your lighting ratios were, like say the beauty dish was F8 and the softbox under the face was F6.3 etc...

Its just I'm wanting to try out some portraits/fashion stuff soon but ive never done this kind of lighting before and I seem to get it all wrong when I experiement.

Also have you got much distance between the model and the background?

Thanks again
H
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Actually there were six. Beauty dish on top, stripbox below and above (and behind for the hairlight) one gridded on each side and one gelled and pointed at the backdrop. But don't despair, not really a hobbiest and two of the strobes were on loan from a friend who's learning and I'm tutoring.
Cheers, Pete
 
H-Man, I don't recall what exactly the settings on each light was, but I do remember the settings were fairly low on each strobe. You don't lose output with a beauty dish and on shots like these you place it very close to the subject (in this case no more that a couple of feet; most likely than that) so power is set quite low. She was sitting about nine feet from the backdrop.
Cheers, Pete
 
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