this image is from a quick shoot I did with my dearest friend Mary. she was off to Georgia and we wanted some shots of us together.Setup:
the background is a black velvety material that I got from Walmart. The nice thing about this fabric is that unless you really put light on it, it won't show the light. It makes it very easy to get a black background. It is supported by an Impact background support system that I got from B&H for about $100
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/437786-REG/Impact_3046_Background_Support_System_.html
I set up one umbrella to camera left with a canon 58oexII set at 1/2 power. The umbrella was slightly higher than head level and off at about a 45 degree angle. To fill in on the right side, I put a sunpak 383 set at 1/16 on a stand and fired it into a homemade bookend. The bookend is simply two large pieces of white foamcore board taped together with white duct tape. You can buy the board at a staples for about $15.
I shot with a 70-200 2.8 on a tripod and shot at F8 to get everything in focus.
Post processing was very simple. I use photoshop CS4
One layer to use the spot healing brush, patch tool, and clone stamp to fix blemishes or hot spots
One layer to Add a touch of gaussian blur to the perimeter
An adjustment layer to reduce the saturation a touch for a different feel.
That's it. The shoot including setup and clean up was less than 45 minutes and we got a bunch of nice shots.
visit David Hobby's brilliant site for a ton of info for strobist work
http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/
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