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Today I added the strobe lights to my small little soft box setup. The results I got before weren't very good. These results were much better, even though the old ones look just fine after trips through Aperture and Photoshop.

Today I added the strobes to the setup. I had pretty long exposure times last time with the camera stopped down far too much, and shadows and color casting and all manner of problems. The strobes let me fix a lot of those.

Here's the current setup:

(Note: the halogen lamp is just in its storage spot. I doubt I'll ever use it for photos.)

All of these photos were shot with the Canon 50mm, f/1.8 lens, manually focused.

This was shot at f/11, 1/250. The Alien Bees were set to full power, but I had the honeycomb filters on and that severely limited the light and the other was bouncing off the inside of a reflective umbrella. These shots were a little underexposed (you can see a little grey around the edges). In fact, they probably all were. The LCD on the back of the XT shows things a lot brighter than they appear on the computer. I'll have to remember that.

f/11, 1/200. I left the lights pretty bright. You can see how little an effect the "in-softbox" lights had since there's still a subtle shadow beneath the bottom ball. I'm happy with this shot, though I know I shouldn't be.

Shot at f/5.6, 1/250. I had to bump the Alien Bees down to about 1/16 for this shot, and I moved them to where you see them in the shot above.

f/11, 1/250. I give this one an "eh." The Alien Bees were set to about the same - about 1/16. At one point I blew them up to 1/4 and shot some photos at f/5.6 (and some at 1/8 and f/8 in between) but, frankly, the images looked about the same. All of 'em. So, I just chose this one. I could have just as easily chosen one of the f/5.6 or the f/8 shots.

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