Hello everyone,
I'm here to get some help as last night I tried to do it myself and got frustrated as it didn't work at all
My partner is pregnant and I wanted to do some nice full body portraits etc. I have a tripod with an umbrella (see pic) and the flash I used was Nikon SB700. My camera is D750 and lens is 85mm 1.8 (nightmare in this tiny room but manageable).
I have remote shutters so the Flash is in front of the umbrella and I've tried various positions but I didn't manage to take a decent picture. I've also noticed that high speed sync (shutter above 1/200 doesn't work with these remote triggers and only works when its hot shoed on the camera). We were doing it in the evening so no light from the window. To add salt to the injury, later my partner took some photos with my iPhone 14 Pro and those were 100x better than what I managed to pull off.
So, what I'm asking here is 2 things :
1) anyone has good tutorials or videos that would help my specific scenario (for placement and setting maybe)? I haven't done full body before - only in a professional studio with professional lights but those were also set up for me so it was super easy. I don't even know if the flash I have can do full body (with the umbrella I have). I find it way easier to setup for just face portraits etc. as you can cover what you need with one light fairly easy
2) I'm thinking to rent Z8 + 24-70 (much better lens for this space) and maybe 2 Profoto lights with soft domes. (any help which domes to use would be helpful also). Here you can rent it fairly cheap over the weekend and I wanted to test mirrorless for a long time so it could be a nice opportunity (and excuse). Originally I wanted to test Sony A7rv but I don't want to mess up with new system so I'll stick to Nikon for this test.
Those with experience - I would really appreciate help. Also, any person here based in Montreal?
I'm here to get some help as last night I tried to do it myself and got frustrated as it didn't work at all
My partner is pregnant and I wanted to do some nice full body portraits etc. I have a tripod with an umbrella (see pic) and the flash I used was Nikon SB700. My camera is D750 and lens is 85mm 1.8 (nightmare in this tiny room but manageable).
I have remote shutters so the Flash is in front of the umbrella and I've tried various positions but I didn't manage to take a decent picture. I've also noticed that high speed sync (shutter above 1/200 doesn't work with these remote triggers and only works when its hot shoed on the camera). We were doing it in the evening so no light from the window. To add salt to the injury, later my partner took some photos with my iPhone 14 Pro and those were 100x better than what I managed to pull off.
So, what I'm asking here is 2 things :
1) anyone has good tutorials or videos that would help my specific scenario (for placement and setting maybe)? I haven't done full body before - only in a professional studio with professional lights but those were also set up for me so it was super easy. I don't even know if the flash I have can do full body (with the umbrella I have). I find it way easier to setup for just face portraits etc. as you can cover what you need with one light fairly easy
2) I'm thinking to rent Z8 + 24-70 (much better lens for this space) and maybe 2 Profoto lights with soft domes. (any help which domes to use would be helpful also). Here you can rent it fairly cheap over the weekend and I wanted to test mirrorless for a long time so it could be a nice opportunity (and excuse). Originally I wanted to test Sony A7rv but I don't want to mess up with new system so I'll stick to Nikon for this test.
Those with experience - I would really appreciate help. Also, any person here based in Montreal?