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Archive for July, 2008

Tom Schmidt, my son if you didn’t figure that out, just opened a new studio in Kansas City. We put a lot of effort into getting it ready to shoot and meet clients. Its ready to go now and Tom is getting settled and geared up to shoot in the studio and all the new [...]

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This was a quick demo of overpowering the ambient light. I held a regular Lumedyne reflector at 400ws as close as I could and stay out of the picture. We dropped he ISO to 100 and cranked up the shutterspeed and aperture to cut the ambient light. I included some of the exif data below. [...]

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When we meter the Background and the Hair light we must first establish the light on the subject with an incident meter, as that is our control point. Metering the Background must be done with a reflective meter aimed at the spot on the background where you want to place the value. An incident meter [...]

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Here is the method to create a lighting ratio using an incident meter. Meter the fill alone and adjust the reading to an even f/stop for easy calculations. Now don’t adjust the fill!! Meter the main plus fill and adjust the power to achieve the difference of fill alone to main plus fill. to create [...]

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High key is always a favorite for all kinds of photography. Portrait, editorial, advertising photographers find use for a bright white background. To do this correctly, and achieve a clean bright evenly lit background and a clear saturated rendering of the the subject we must set up our lighting and meter carefully. Here are a [...]

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STROBIST Read all the items in the Lighting 101 section.

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BluDomain Blu is the big daddy of this business, they launch hundreds of sites every month. We have 3 Blu sites that we use at SchmidtPhoto.com. Our current template is the GEORGE. It features large photos, but we found that they were too large for many home computers. We are in the process of putting [...]

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