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Wrapped

kweide — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:12:27 +0000

“And now wrap into…!” It was just a second and she wrapped herself entirely into her beautiful veil, smiling, holding the position, waiting for the flash. What els could i do ? Okay, i took the shot, the picture was mine again.
You should alway keep in mind the simplicity of the setup. A simple white backdrop, illuminated with a simple old automatic flash set to M, 2 EV more than the main light. Main light again a flash set to M, shot thru a 40 x 60 cm soft box. The complete camera setup as easy as could be 100% in M.

You like the output ?? We do. Olympus E-M1 + M.Zuiko 12-40 @f2.8

Show me ..

kweide — Sun, 13 May 2012 08:45:43 +0000

Show me the power. This is again a special wish from her. And yes, it is a fun, it is a you to do so. It is only a few minutes of work to produce the visual effect but it lasts a lot more time to get the picture itself on the cf card !!

What helped here, was just the fact that she is already well trained in posing and knows herself what fits best. So she did it. Simple !

High voltage

kweide — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:08:41 +0000

She asked me to do something special. Electro-Girl alike. Well, that is easy, was my response. So i took a picture, cropped it a bit and but some magic into the frame. Blue flash lightnings, coming from the fingertips, shooting to the front, as if aimed to one standing aside you.

That was really fun doing so and she laughed a lot, took the print and asked for even more. So that is the best what can happen to you: Follow on orders :)

The light, how to

kweide — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:32:27 +0000

How to set up the light ? How can i achieve such light as shown in your pictures ? A question i often got from you. Well it is so easy as i already wrote it. Bounce it ! Here is a simple example you can follow at home:

Her highness was placed sideways to the window. But the day was against us. The light was simply not present. A dull day, gray, haze, no sun. So i got no touch from the window. I placed a white reflector ( i use it quite often ) at the window, angled and a flash ( Metz 58 AF-2 ) to directly flash into the reflector from there against the glass of the window and diffused by the window veils… here the setup picture:

And it worked ! See the light on her right side of her face . What do you say ? It is easy, really ! Camera setting ? Here they are: Olympus E-5, Zuiko 50-200SWD, f2.9, ISO 250, 55 mm focal length. No tricks at all !