Photo of the Day

Once again, Fumiko is a real sport and lets me use her as a guinea pig. 70cm shoot-through brolly directly above camera lit by Canon 580 EXII, reflector held in lap, gold reflector behind the shoji screen lit by Canon 580 EX (v1). Canon 20D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm. 1/125 @ f 8, ISO100. Flash at 1/4 power. Shot at the end of a long day of work, so the poor model is not "prepped" or anything.

This was a total experiment. I wanted to see what would happen using this translucent shoji screen as a backdrop and lighting it from behind. For attempt number two, there are a number of changes I need to make.

1. Turn up the power of the back light.
2. Move the model further from the backdrop so that...


1. ...the backdrop goes father out of focus (DOF is a problem for portraiture with these super wide angle lenses)
2. ...less light from the key falls on the front of the screen. I was hopping for it to look more back lit than it does. In fact, you can only barely tell I've done anything at all by the slight warming of color just over the model's shoulder.
3. I'm using a small reflector in the model's lap. Would like to see how a much larger one impacts the image.
   

Perhaps if the Shoji were back lit better, it wouldn't be so important for it to go out of focus.