Trying to set up some directed light to make dramatic lighting portraits using myself as a guinea pig.
CC very welcome...
Lighting: 2x speedlites - Gridded snout from camera right 30° elevated (1/8 power), feathered softbox from camera left, face level (1/4 power).
Camera Settings: 1/200s, f16, ISO 200; Lens: Canon 70-200mm f2.8 at 70mm
Self Portrait
Looks great to me. The only edit I would suggest is your left arm, camera right, is too evenly lit, and so it is too fully represented, so it distracts from your face, which is very well lit but being behind your arms needs the arms to be just rim lit or some other way of minimising them, to leave your face the centre of attenton. The fact that the brightness of your arms is lower than the light level of your face helps but still...
What you guys do with speed lights impresses the heck out of me. Well done.
Thank you for the helpful feedback, I see what you mean... I was apparently too worried about the fingers being too dark. I lowered the lighting on the arms with a gradient which I think solves both problems... Next time I will flag the arms a bit ...
I agree with Ian, but I also don't like what the light has done to your fingers. They look a bit creepy.
And experimenting with speedlites is always fun. My profile pic was taken with an Interfit strobies grid on a single 580EX. Pretty sure I used my EOS M2, as I was testing remote shooting from my phone or tablet.
Thank you as I mentioned to Ian the fingers were my main concern when I posted the image, I didn't like how dark they were, but darkening the arms and fingers even more kind of alleviates the problem (or at least make it less noticeable) to me.