Wednesday, November 25, 2009

You don’t need a pro studio and expensive lights to get a great shot

Here’s a shot I took recently of my almost 5 month old son, Kai, in my home studio. I only used two Canon 580EX II flashes shot through umbrellas, yet the image quality is much better than you get from most local high volume portrait studios. To take a look at what I have in my studio, click here and check out the Studio section.

For this shot I used my Canon 5D Mark II with a 50mm f/1.4 lens mounted on a tripod with a remote release and mirror lockup to ensure sharpness. I set my my camera to 1/200 at f/5.6 using ISO 400 and had my Canon ST-E2 wireless flash transmitter trigger the off-camera flashes. I post-processed it using Nik Software Viveza 2.0 and Sharpener Pro 3.0 in less than 20 minutes. 

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