Saturday, June 14, 2008

Face Painting

My wife, Michelle, is a Children's Entertainer. Today when she was heading off to work I thought it was a great time to catch her all dressed up. She was running a little late so I didn't have more than a few minutes to get a shot we both liked.

SETUP: I have a diffused strobe camera left creating soft light, and the sun back camera right as the separating light. The garden was still in shade so it is underexposed a few stops because I didn't want the sun to blow out Michelle's hair too much. I could have lit the Background separately but didn't have time. I used a couple pocketwizards to trigger the strobe so my little girl didn't go tripping over the cabling.

I will be playing around with a few photos like this as we are in the planning stages of a new website for Michelle. Will link to it when it is done.