Closeups and portraits

[ewx]

I finally pointed my camera at Ian's train set with appropriate attachments.

This has something to do with ducks.

What's that, then?

Using the twin flash for portraits gives a rather strange effect.

The 100mm lens turns out to make quite a good indoor portrait lens without flash, though the camera's metering system doesn't really seem to believe in it.

Comments

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I think the red thing is that really annoying bit out of your Lego set/Ikea furniture/kid's latest toy that you lose, and without which the whole thing won't hold together.

[deadpidge.livejournal.com]

Brilliant.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Those are very pretty (and occasionally slightly disturbing :)).

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

105mm used to be recommended for portraiture, iirc.
What's this twin flash setup? ISTR you want a full on one side and about a half from the other, to get some modelling. A bit of backlight is nice too.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

My sensor isn't 35mm so traditional rules about focal lengths need scaling by 1.6. Twin flash (http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/controller?act=ModelDetailAct&fcategoryid=141&modelid=7282).

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

Ah, they're a bit close together for doing faces. Messing with the ratio between them would be better than nowt though. I used to have remote triggering stuff and have flashes on separate tripods about a fathom either side.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Yes. The particular oddity I had in mind was the dual reflections in the eye though.

[kaet.livejournal.com]

YAGillGrissamAICMFP

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Does he have magic software?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the train at the top used different amounts of light from each side, IIRC the rest of the flash pics here are full on.