 LINDA GUIDROZ |
Lighting It the first time that I have use lighting. I have a Nikon D-50 and I was using two continuious Light with 250w halgon bulbs with white umberalla's. I was looking at my picturs on my camera as I went but when I got home and brought them up on the computer there was shadows on all of them. the shadow is to the left of the person. How do I stop the shadows? I am new to this. This is a very small school and there aren't very many dancers. My flash on my camera was going off too. Does that have something to do with the shadows? I have included one of the pictures Thanks,
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W. |
Hi Linda, "How do I stop the shadows?" By taking care the subject is lit identically on both sides. "My flash on my camera was going off too. Does that have something to do with the shadows?" If your cam was in the verical position with the flashgun on the right: YES! THAT is the cause of the shadows. It also shows you that your continuous lights are faaar less powerful than your flashgun. How to get rid of those shadows? Switch off your flashgun . . . ! But you will find that your continuous lights don't have the OOMPH you need for portraits. You need flash! Good luck.
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Alan N. Marcus |
Mr. Smith’s advice is sound, i.e. you should turn off your camera flash when using continuous lighting. It will be difficult to place your continuous lights to give pleasing lighting on you subject and at the same time avoid shadows on the background unless you take other countermeasures. Shadows on the background are enhanced when the background is quite close to your subject. Try and place the subject further away. This will be difficult to accomplish unless your working area (studio) is large. For best results you need to place a third lamp placed low and behind the subject. This lamp can be just a bare bulb or a lamp in a simple reflector aimed back and upwards at the background. A background lamp serves to neutralize shadows cast by the main and the fill lamp. As to your other two existing lamps: I advise one to be placed close to the camera lens and lens height. This lamp is called the fill and it subdues shadows cast by the main. The second one, is to be placed to illuminate subject from a position high (simulates afternoon sun). This lamp is called the main and is placed closer, lamp to subject distance, than the fill. Measure fill to subject distance and multiply by 0.7 for main to subject distance. Such positioning will add some zip and you subjects will appreciate the pictures all the more. Alan Marcus
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LINDA GUIDROZ |
Thank you Mr Smith and Mr Marcus: I will try this and see how they come out. Linda
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