Christmas Dinner

ISO: 400  f/2.8  shutter speed: 1/160 

ISO: 400  f/2.8  shutter speed: 1/160 

ISO: 400  f/2.8  shutter speed: 1/160 

ISO: 400  f/2.8  shutter speed: 1/160

These were taken this past weekend at my house. My mom cooked a "Christmas dinner" and we wanted to illuminate the empty chair and really put emphasis on it. We did not have all the gear we needed at all. We had two flashes, but only one stand and one sync. We finally figured out how to use master and slave but with that we had to have one flash on the camera which isn't exactly what we wanted, but it worked. The first picture I like how it is above and you can see them praying, but it is too dark, and it kind of makes the empty chair look weird. The second one is underexposed, but we were still trying to figure out the flashes and everything. The third picture is still kind of dark, but I like how it looks. The newspaper just can't print a really dark picture :( So, for the last picture, we brought the fill light up quite a bit. For these pictures, I was holding the flash and Brianna was taking the picture and Haley joined my family, except for the first picture where Haley and Brianna's roles were switched. We all were figuring out our flashes together, and were being as resourceful as possible. For a snoot, we used a paper bag with black tissue paper. Since we didn't have an umbrella, we used one of mine and duck taped it to the light stand, but since we didn't have enough syncs and stuff, we weren't able to use that(but Brianna did for her self portrait) After we took the picture, we all pigged out on the food, and it was so delicious! This was an extremely fun photo assignment! :)