I was browsing the Strobist Blog this morning and read a post on two light only portrait shots so I got out this afternoon and gave it a try. I didn't realise how hard it was going to be to shoot a strobist self portrait! It's hard enough just to position yourself in the frame and get the focusing right let alone setting up flashguns on stands and getting them to hit the right places with the right power... But I got there in the end, just.
There was a part of my garage wall that was in shadow and as a result was evenly lit with nice soft light, a perfect backdrop! I got an ambient reading for the wall at 1/200th sec at f/2.8 ISO 100 so I stopped down to f/11 to completely kill the ambient light and allow me to use only the two flashguns to light the shot. I set up one of the flash units leaning against the wall to camera right and put it level with my head, set it to 1/2 power, zoomed it to 105mm and used an 8" Cardboard Snoot to restrict the light to my head and shoulders. I then set up the other flash low down and on 1/4 power to camera left with a stofen to send the light out in all directions and fill in the shadows.
430 EX II 1/2 with 8" snoot front camera right | 360AFDC 1/4 with Stofen camera left
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