I finally got back into my studio (with some very active models) and put some of my new found knowledge to the test. Prior to the shoot I had a lot of fun testing out the lights alone and with a fellow photography enthusiast. By the way, I now have two background lights which makes full length portraits a little bit easier to take as I don't have that one light in the middle anymore. My goal was to have my main and fill light ratios to be a 3:1 ratio with my background lights at 11.5 (it should have been at 13.5 which is 1.5 stops hotter than the main light of f 8.0 - this would have ensured a pure white high key background) which resulted in the following set up:
background lights: 11.5
main light: 8.0
fill light: 4.8
Because my background lights were not as hot as they should have been the background was a little underexposed causing the picture to look a little grey around the edges. Normally, I would fix this in photoshop but I used thrifty white tile board on the floor to get to reflection from my subject's feet and I do not want to get rid of this. Below, are the results of the above settings:
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