Self-Referential Strobist - a photo on Flickriver

One of my New Year's resolutions for photography is to dedicate myself to becoming better with flash and portrait photography. Here's one of my first attempts to that end. I would certainly appreciate any feedback or tips. If it helps to evaluate it, here it is large size on black.

Strobist Notes:

I built a ghetto butterfly lighting pvc contraption using these instructions.

I mounted my SB-800 on an SC-29 above the diffuser panel of the butterfly lighting setup.

Next, I used the diy background idea detailed here, and it works really great! For the background I used an SB-15 with colored folder dividers and colored plastic bowls to light a white sheet hung on the stand.

Finally an SB-28 had varied duties of contributing fill on camera left either via a cozie drink holder snoot or bounced out of an umbrella.

For the posted shot the SB-28 was used in conjunction with the SB-15 to light up the background.

The SB-28 was optically slaved on an SU-4 and wired via a pc sync cable to the SB-15. Amazingly enough, with FV Lock in ttl I found using the other lights really didn't seem to mess with exposure too much. I also used pure manual flash but was pretty thrilled I can go ttl with optically triggered strobes if I need or want to.

Taken on: January 3, 2008

Tags:

Portrait

Strobist

DIY

Self-Portrait

Myself

People

Experimentation

Butterfly Light

Thanks to Just Fab

Michael

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Camera: Nikon D300, f/9.0, 1/160 sec, 92mm (=138mm), ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D300
Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	0.006 sec (1/160)
Focal Length:	92mm (35mm equivalent: 138mm)
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	On, Return detected
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
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