Thanks. I use mostly cheap chinese strobes ,and also a rather cheap Polish one called Micro. The two first images is just a umbrella with the Micro, camera left.
I shot Helena for the third time, she is one tattoed lady, among other things. We did a lot of themes. I was curious to make some old style portraits with a very shallow DOF. The pignose was meant...
Those are very nice. Using the Lens Blur filter would give more realism , looking like a real lens than Gaussian Blur, as it can mimic the unsharp highlights in a realistic way.
Congratulations, you waited for something great, I see. baby photos always make me smile. I wish I had more opportunities to take them.Maybe I have to start manufacturing myself.
Glad you couldnt resist. The first one is pure magic to me. Love how it lokks further away by the horizon.
Like the second one too, amazing clarity. I so want to go to New York, maybe you just...
Continuous light sources are usually to weak to compete with a Flash, and they often have different light temperature, so it makes it hard to fix the white balance in post.
Image quality looks the same. I went from 350d to 450d,got scared as the image quality ( when everything was set to zero ) seemed lower than 350d, and traded up to a 40d just to see it was the same....