So the story goes…I was trying another self portrait last night using the white background when along came Mel. Much better

I was lucky in that I had about 2 minutes to grab something, this was my favourite.

Thought I’d get in close with the 50mm this time, just playing with different compositions. Although I break a cardinal rule as pointed out to me, never have a subject looking directly at the camera…that is a no no. Also I did cut off the top of her head, I hope she’ll be ok This shot has some healing in photoshop, apart from that it’s pretty much straight out of camera.

I wanted soft light on her face but direct umbrella wasn’t giving me what I wanted so I feathered the light a little which still gave me some facial definition.

Although the diagram below looks like I was using a white seamless…I don’t own one of those Instead it was the trusty off-white wall in our apartment.

Strobist
Nikon SB-80DX 1/4 power camera left and right behind subject with gobo’s to prevent the light wrapping around the subject too much
Sunpak 383 1/4 power into shoot through umbrella camera left for main light

Triggered using wireless triggers

Camera
Nikon D90
ISO 200
1/200th
f/5
50mm

With the birth of the twins I’m all out of whack and have had zero time to do any 365 stuff (not that I kept up everyday anyway!).

Reasonably quick setup tonight. I saw some white background stuff somewhere today so thought I’d try that.

Pretty simple setup with 2 strobes behind subject left and right to blow background to white. The background is just an off-white wall in the apartment.

Softbox as "main" light from camera left.

Also the flickr debut of the 50mm 1.4, looking forward to spending time with this guy

Flowers were a gift for Mel from the girls at work. Always good to practice shooting flowers

Strobist
Nikon SB-80DX 1/4 power camera left and right behind subject with gobo’s to prevent the light wrapping around the subject too much
Sunpak 383 1/2 power into 28" softbox camera left for main light

Rim was from light bouncing off the background

Triggered using wireless triggers

Camera
Nikon D90
ISO 200
1/200th
f/6.3
50mm

Mel is officially 27 weeks along with our twins and she’s looking very big! Well, that’s because she’s kinda small anyway and there are 2 of them in there.

This shot was taken quite quickly in the lounge room. It was tricky because I didn’t really have much room to play with, so I actually shot her full frame (in the viewfinder that is) and then added the negative space on her left in post.

Strobist:
Nikon SB-80DX 1/4 power @ 24mm camera left into 28" softbox
Nikon SB-80DX 1/32nd power @ 24mm on background w/grid spot

Camera:
Nikon D90
ISO 200
1/200th
f/5
44mm