Due to overwhelming rejection of Snapfish as an image host, I've moved the
pictures to:
<a href="http://www.flash.net/~steveg3/karl/page1.htm";>
http://www.flash.net/~steveg3/karl/page1.htm </a>
The lone link at the bottom of the image will toggle between pictures.
I originally wrote:
>
> Help!
> I've been assigned to take a full length portrait of "Karl the Janitor".
> It's
> not a standard portrait, we want to distort it a bit, and emphasize the buck
> teeth, mismatched boots, swaggering pose, etc. So instead of using a 50mm lens
> or longer, I'm trying this with my 24mm lens. Also, the background will be
> digitally removed, so as long as it's bland I'm not worrying about that.
>
> I have had a tough time getting this shot, and I would like suggestions.
>
> The setup for this attempt was OM2n and Zuiko 24mm 2.8 set at f5.6, loaded
> with
> Fuji Superia 400, and with a little Vivitar flash in the hot shoe. Held next
> to
> the Vivitar flash was a homemade flash slave trigger gizmo, with a long PC
> cord. the other end of the trigger cord was plugged into the pc cord of a
> bounce grip 2 and T32, mounted on a tripod. The t32 was to my right. It was
> about four feet off the ground (short tripod), and angled for a vertical shot
> (as was the camera). The T32 had a 2 meter T cord plugged in, which went over
> to my left side, and a Sunpak 433 flash in a t20 adapter, on another tripod.
> There was overhead fluorescent lighting in the room, but it was turned off.
> There was a glass doorway to the right, and a lot of light was coming in from
> that direction. Both flashes were set to read their internal thyristors, and
> set for a recommendation of f8.
>
> As you can see from the photos, there's a lot of light fall off towards the
> bottom of the frame, not to mention weird shadows from the low position of the
> side flashes.
>
> Besides turning the overhead lighting on, about all I can add to the mix is an
> old "sun gun" movie light.
>
> So, any suggestions, or should we just call in a pro?
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