One Stop Under

Today I had the opportunity to do a photoshoot for The Company's image-making session. Its actually the second photoshoot i joined since they had one last week. Both are a great experience as I get to work my flashgun and learn some lessons. In the first session I wasted some good shots underexposing the leng-cai, leng-lui main casts. This time I was luckier with the supporting actors, though I still underexpose by one stop or so. The conditions was much similar to the first one. It was a heavily overcast day and the lighting was really bad. To make things difficult, the only light source was a 650-watter, which fought with my underpowered flash.

My shots were all portrait-orientated. Since the camera was vertical, the only way I could fire the flash nicely without harshness on the subjects were straight up to the ceiling. At wider shots, the TTL flash wasn't powerful enough to reach the entire height of the subject. Closer shots were much better, the only problems being hard shadow on the background (because I don't have a diffuser) and uneven lighting (caused by different light temperatures).


The very talented Alvin Wong.


The much-beautiful-than-the-main-cast Joyce Hon.

There's another session next Monday. This time with the full cast. Lets see if I can gain back that one stop.

no-fark!