Making progress with the portrait lighting. This photo of Trina uses Joe McNally's classic beauty light formula with softboxes above and below. Retouched in Photoshop and Lightroom. D3, Nikon 105mm f/2, 1/100 @f/11, ISO 100. I strongly recommend Joe McNally's book: "The Moment It Clicks". It's a wonderful and inspirational book, one of the best photography books I've found.
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Great shot, Ray. It looks polished and professional. I'm curious about the ISO 100 choice. Was that for larger f-stop, quality or ???
Thanks - I read somewhere that f/11 is the magic stop for portraits so i wanted to give it a try, and the strobes were at pretty low power anyway, so i cranked the ISO to the lowest setting on the D3 (named LO -1.0 which i guess means "you don't need this!"). Maybe the D700 uses the same naming. In any case f/11 seemed to work well with the 105mm on full frame - it holds the nose and eyes and softens visibly at the ears. I was honestly surprised how shallow the DOF is, but I guess that's the larger sensor.
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