Strobes & Selfies

I decided it was time for a new headshot, as my last one was over 4 years old.

Last time I only had an old flashgun to play with, which I ended up bouncing off the ceiling with a reflector held in front of my chest to take out some of the shadows beneath nose/brow/etc.

This time I had a set of studio strobes to play with, which were a present from a friend when she moved back to Canada. I experimented with a few different setups but ended up using a single strobe with a softbox on the left, reflector on the right, white/grey background behind me.

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Ideally I maybe would’ve tried to introduce a second light as a hair light & maybe the third to give the background more of a gradient, but the space was too small & I could only run the strobes down to 1/8th power so it was soon just too much light.

Anyway, I don’t think it came out too badly for my first time trying to use studio strobes. Especially considering I was using a self timer so couldn’t actually compose anything properly!

NMS Museum Lates: Game Masters

We went back to the NMS for the Game Masters Museum Late last month.

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Things weren’t quite as photogenic as last year, with the whole affair being darker (both inside lighting & lack of sunlight due to being in February rather than May)

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