During a recent Strobist meetup I was doing a boudoir demonstration to show dramatic lighting using speedlights. I was shooting tethered and projecting the resulting images. 97.3% of the time I let Nikon tell/show me how it sees the scene first and how it thinks it should be lit. I almost always make adjustments to the resulting mechanically conjured lighting.
See setup photo here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/byrkdauph/4613328383/in/set-72157621832784087/
As I was changing the lens from the Nikkor 24-70 2.8 to the Nikkor 85 1.4 I was asked if I ever used the largest aperture for portraits. The three images were shot in front of the group to demonstrate how to use depth of field to change the tone or focus withing a portrait.
The top image was taken at f/16
The middle one at f/5.6
The bottom at f1.4
The effect is dramatic but I’d like to point out another aspect of the photos that I failed to highlight for the group. I was showing the effect of change f /stops and did not adjust the speedlights throughout the large aperture changes for the DOF demo.
I had adjusted them to get the lighting I wanted in the beginning as stated above but not after making the f/stop adjustments. Nikon’s CLS system adjusted – on the fly- the power outputs of three speedlights for the entire range of lens - f/1.4 through f/16 with NO adjustments from me.
Had I been shooting manual I would have spent easily 3 or 4 times the effort to show something that took me literally less than 5 minutes using the CLS.
I love the Nikon CLS system.
More photos from the session here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/byrkdauph/sets/72157623950994863/detail/
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Using Depth of Field Demostration in Portraits: CLS works with you
During a recent Strobist meetup I was doing a boudoir demonstration to show dramatic lighting using speedlights. I was shooting tethered and projecting the resulting images. 97.3% of the time I let Nikon tell/show me how it sees the scene first and how it thinks it should be lit. I almost always make adjustments to the resulting mechanically conjured lighting.
See setup photo here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/byrkdauph/4613328383/in/set-72157621832784087/
As I was changing the lens from the Nikkor 24-70 2.8 to the Nikkor 85 1.4 I was asked if I ever used the largest aperture for portraits. The three images were shot in front of the group to demonstrate how to use depth of field to change the tone or focus withing a portrait.
The top image was taken at f/16
The middle one at f/5.6
The bottom at f1.4
The effect is dramatic but I’d like to point out another aspect of the photos that I failed to highlight for the group. I was showing the effect of change f /stops and did not adjust the speedlights throughout the large aperture changes for the DOF demo.
I had adjusted them to get the lighting I wanted in the beginning as stated above but not after making the f/stop adjustments. Nikon’s CLS system adjusted – on the fly- the power outputs of three speedlights for the entire range of lens - f/1.4 through f/16 with NO adjustments from me.
Had I been shooting manual I would have spent easily 3 or 4 times the effort to show something that took me literally less than 5 minutes using the CLS.
I love the Nikon CLS system.
More photos from the session here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/byrkdauph/sets/72157623950994863/detail/
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