Hair Light

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Just trying out new (to me) lighting set ups, now that I have the stuff I need for that.

Pentax K-x - 1/180 sec - f/5.6 - ISO 200 - ~60mm

Two flash units pointing at subject, each at an arm's length, one behind subject, camera left and one in front, camera right.

Used GIMP to auto adjust levels. Scaled but didn't watermark it, since I recently made some changes to my file storage and seem to have lost my watermark. This is a good thing, because its about time I came up with a better one.

To be clear, the layout of these posts is: Title, picture, copyright, caption, metadata, lighting, post-processing, technical comments. Pretty much all the information after the caption is for my own benefit, for extracting and recording lessons learned.

Now that I've got several flashguns and things that make them flash I can have light setups like a pro. Unfortunately that doesn't make the photos good. That requires practise. Here, I'm having a go with introducing a hair light or kicker or something. There's an extra light behind me, camera left. The catch is that I'm holding that and the remote with my right hand and I'm holding the main light with my left hand and I have to go check the photos each time on the camera, and still return to the right place (which has to be determined by trial and error). Maybe setting it up in front of a mirror might help.

There was a time period of more than a month between taking the photo and posting it, and in that time I've forgotten some details. When I put the meta data in I noticed that the camera claims that the flash fired. I'm not sure if this is because I was using the flash cord with my achiever for the key (I just tested, and that will cause the camera to record that the flash was fired, though using the radio triggers doesn't) or if I actually had the pop up flash up. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, since it clearly didn't contribute much to the exposure. I had noticed a second light in my eyes but had assumed that to be the rear light reflecting in the window (this was shot with a glass window behind the camera). Perhaps I had misplaced my radio triggers and cable? I don't know. I should really do these things faster.

I will be having another go at this.