B&W self portrait in a different light

[edG]

after putting in a 10 hour day on the tools, I decided to test out my new 43" octabox and backdrop set-up

Main light is the octabox with SB 600 at 1/2 power camera right on 45 and 7.5' up
Fill light is 28" Apollo softbox with SB 600 1/8 power directly behind camera 8' up

additional fill provided by a 42" Litedisc on a stand angled to 30 degrees directly in front of subject with whiteside facing up

back drop was lit with one Mini wide optical slave off to right side of subject about 5 feet away from backdrop

Speedlights were triggered wirelessly with a Cactus V4 tranmitter and triggers

Camera - Nikon D5000 with Tamron 2.8 90mm macro lens

[JAS_Photo]

THat's a very nice portrait, Ed! The light looks good and I like the B&W conversion.

[Richard]

Excellent portrait Ed, and thanks for your detailed lighting description.

[edG]

Thanks JAS and Richard. The B&W conversion was done in Lr 3.5 using a preset that emulates Ilfords Pan F 50 B&W film, slightly tweaked. Really enjoying how these pop-up modifiers work and the quality of light you can get with them.

[thoughton]

This is a great portrait, very nicely done. Like the landscape format. Really nice tones, pro background, and I like the 'rabbit in the headlights' expression

[Marko]

Nice self portrait ed - dig the overall sharpness, lighting and the bw conversion here.

[edG]

Thanks Tim and Marko!

[susan]

Love this! texture, mood, intensity, background, light --- all wonderful!

[edG]

Cheers Susan!

[AcadieLibre]

This one I really like, the B&W on this one is bang on. Well done, now I am getting in the mood to attempt some self portraits myself now.