Post Your Best Portrait Shots!

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Originally Posted by Sean Setters

Great shots Fred. Is that a three light setup (large softbox right, striplight behind left, and light on background)?
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Hey Sean, thanks.

I was using only what was available to me at the time. It was a 3strobe setup. I was using a stripbox to the right and a little forward set at f5.6, another stripbox behind leftset at f8, and the third strobe with a 20 degree gridfor the background set at f8. I would have used a large softbox with a grid (to control the spill on the background) on the rightif I had it available but it was being used at the time. I also had planned on using a 4th light as a hair light butfelt it was unnecessary for the shots.

Fred~

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Did a fun engagement shoot last night. Not my most technically sound picture lighting-wise, but I liked the energy.



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My daughter


5D, 24-105 @ f5.6, ISO 160. Sunpak 120J through 42" umbrella main, 120J in softbox left, vivitar 285 in softbox hairlight





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Fred,


The first picture is stunning! The color saturation, the detail. Just fantastic. It is incredibly smooth, solid, vibrant color. If that's what a 1Ds Mark III can do, I may have to sell my car.

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Originally Posted by HiFiGuy1

Fred,


The first picture is stunning! The color saturation, the detail. Just fantastic. It is incredibly smooth, solid, vibrant color. If that's what a 1Ds Mark III can do, I may have to sell my car.
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Thanks for your kind words. It is a wonderful camera but it helps to have great lenses and lighting setup too. Hope you have a couple of vehicles to sell [;)]

This is one of my first shots. With an XTI


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<td style="font-size: 120%;"][b][url="http://www.flickr.com/cameras/canon/eos_digital_rebel_xti/]Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi[/url][/b]</td>
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<td style="font-size: 120%;"]0.008 sec (1/125)</td>
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<td style="font-size: 120%;" width="30%"]Aperture:</td>
<td style="font-size: 120%;"]f/5.6</td>
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<td style="font-size: 120%;" width="30%"]Focal Length:</td>
<td style="font-size: 120%;"]135 mm</td>
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<td>100</td>
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<td>Exposure Bias:</td>
<td>+1/3 EV</td>
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On, Red-eye reduction
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This is a small photoshoot i did at my house, with a curtain as my backdrop, a softbox on my left side and a umbrella on the right. I was testing the flashes since im a novice into photography. I had a major problem since the T1i doesn't have a PC sync i had to shoot the flash on the camera and rely on the trigger by light of the flash.





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<td style="font-size: 120%;" width="30%"]Exposure:</td>
<td style="font-size: 120%;"]0.005 sec (1/200)</td>
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<td style="font-size: 120%;"]f/9.0</td>
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<td style="font-size: 120%;"]55 mm</td>
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<td>100</td>
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EXIF


EF 70-200 2,8 L @ F/4


108 mm, 1/125, ISO 200


Av mode, +0,3

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Originally Posted by Sean Setters

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Originally Posted by devsalvi

... is that a GT

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You got it. It's a 2004 Competition Orange Mustang GT. Affectionately known as the "Pony Express." ;-)

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I got all excited and thought of buying one of those mounts, then realized that the family's minivan just wouldn't have the same effect.. superb shot Sean!!!


-Rodger