DSLR Shots and Discussions

LunaZ

Lighting is a little tricky for me. I'm not working with strobes and my hours never coincide with natural light, so I'm rocking Home Depot shop lights, a reflector and a camera mounted speedlite with a Gary Fong diffuser.
I got really creative this weekend and balanced a reflector on top of my backdrop frame to create the effect of a hair light. It actually worked quite well.
I think the different temperatures of the all the lights I'm using is throwing things off. I've turned my white balance down to a cooler temperature to try to compensate.
I'd like to add strobes with softboxes to my kit, but I want to make sure I understand what I'm doing with them before I write that check.

You just reminded me I need to check that this new monitor is calibrated correctly!

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KillerBee370

The diffuser is your one saving grace with this setup however it's too little attached to a speed light fighting against "shop" lights which are blowing everything else out. It isn't bad to work with what you have but you are going to have to get very creative about how to diffuse powerful shop lights.

A side effect of too much light on the image is that besides blowing it out, it takes aways depth. The overall composition is good but the lighting isn't lending the artistic merit any proper due!

In a controlled interior such as a studio (or wherever), strobes offer the most control over light. Especially strobes with variable power settings complete with softening the light through softboxes.

SailFree

Lovely woman, interesting pose, no clutter, but I think your light is the problem as the skin tone is off a little. Has that faintly space-alien look...

When mixing types of lights, it's tough to get skin tones right.