Quote Originally Posted by DeutscheBAG!
first thing
get a light meter stat..otherwise your gonna spend all day from trial and error getting a correct exposure..and your camere view screen will play tricks with you.
Shit you'll deal with w/o a lightmeter..

overexposed/finding what looks right even when your still off.
:metered and shot lighted correctly the first time/minus the de-saturation, but im sure u get the idea..

its saves ya a great headache and not having to deal with photoshop to fix your exposures

2nd. if u have the software..shoot tethered.so u know EXACTLY what your producing..hell.i'll even get it for you if you want it

i'll write ya up some examples for you tomorrow and show u some more examples of lighting like i did on Ran in the studio a few days ago. it mainly depends what kind of light u want,(like your subject harsh lit or soft lit) or what effect your looking for. if your really serious about portraits, i also recommend tracking down a softbox also.

for starters, one thing that will help you is the inverse square law.Next time i do something in the studio, i'll invite ya up if want to check it out firsthand.

he inverse square law says is that an object that is twice the distance from a point source of light will receive a quarter of the illumination. So what it means to us photographers is that if you move your subject from 3 metres away to six metres away, you will need four times the amount of light for the same exposure. This can most easily be achieved by opening the lens aperture two f-stops or using a flash that is four times as powerful

light diminishes so rapidly because it spreads and so a smaller and smaller proportion of the light hits the object

i can honestly say that your progressing faster than any other up and coming guys that are new to the dslr world...
keep up the good work

if u have any questions, pm me..i'll more than happy to help ya dude
thank you, that has helped somewhat, im still trying to wrap my brain around this, i think im making it more complicated than it really is lol

i know shooting tether involves not burning the image to your card but instead transferring to your computer right? id love to get my hands on the software to do that because you are right, the test shots i did today looks totally different on my camera than what they did when i transfered them. i was disappointed greatly. i think the bi issue i will have is the fact that each of my flashes are non adjustable but ii am just going to have to make do with what i have, i cant really bitch cause everything was free!

thank you again.