3 Kids

[Colin Southern]

Tonights shoot, in a make-shift studio ...

[Dave Humphries]

Technically excellent as usual.

OK, you know I am no expert, but... the only thing that strikes me looking at them is not having quite enough 'modelling' in the lighting set up.
They're just a tad too evenly lit across the frame. You know what I mean; too much 'fill'/not enough 'key'.

It is just a feeling though, darn good shots which I'm sure they (and their parents) are all pleased with.

Cheers,

[PopsPhotos]

I have to agree with Dave, on this one. Great shots, but I'd have used a little of what my mentor used to call "shadow light" on them. Not much, mind you, but just enough to soften the flash blast effect.

Great shots, though.

Pops

[Colin Southern]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the kind words

It would have been nice to have been able to do more with the lighting, but there just wasn't time ... it started out as a "photo of the kids for partner's birthday tomorrow" (which was a VERY tight schedule anyway), and ended up being "photos of each kid individially- photos of all kids together - photos of Mum - photos of Mum and Dad - photos of the whole family" etc ... not to mention "fun stuff" photos of the kids doing crazy things to keep them in a co-operative frame of mind; all in a makeshift studio (10 x 4m boat shed) (hopefully get my new studio sorted in the next month or so).

Shot almost a couple of hundred frames in about an hour, with no assistants - so I had to use a couple of speedlights shot through shoot-through umbrellas on the floor in lieu of a reflector, and a couple of Elinchrom 60 x 80cm softboxes on boom arms for main/fill. The lightmeter was telling me that there was (off memory) a 4:1 contrast ratio between the softboxes and the umbrellas, but I had to run with balanced keys and balanced fills (sorta/kinda a dual balanced offset clamshell configuration!).

Always fun though

PS: I kinda like even lighting anyway