Another grey day today. No reason to go outside. Not much else to do. So…let´s take some more portrait shots in the studio. Most of the portraits I´ve been doing so far have been taken with an aperture of f/11 or f/13. But this time I wanted to have less depth of field. As we all probably know (or should know), the aperture you use (if not using a flash meter) is the result of dividing the strobe´s guidenumber divided by the distance from strobe to object (with the strobe at full power and camera at ISO 100). This time I wanted to use aperture f/5.6. According to my calculations this means that I divide the guidenumer with the aperture to calculate the distance. My Elinchrom D-Lites 400 have a guidenumber of 64. So, 64 divided by 5.6 gives 11 meters (roughly). However, that is with the D-Lites at full power. Brought this power back with about 4 to 5 stops by setting the strobes at 2.5 (instead of 6.0 which is full power). This gives a distance of roughly 1 meter between strobe and object (model in this case). Have a look at some results.
Decided also to do some experimenting with a bit of backlighting as you can tell by the last 2 images. Above pictures and more have been added to the Portrait gallery as well.
All in all, it was another sunday afternoon well spent, I feel.
