Practice Shots

I took some practice photos of my very beautiful wife a few days ago.  I am trying out different poses I have written down.  I used a bounce flash (old Vivitar flash) with a white card rubber band to it.  I move the card up so that there was a 1" - 1 1/2" lip.   I also have a DIY soft box for my fill light.I have a gray card that I used to take a pre-measured white balance.  I used a Nikon D40x with a 18mm - 55mm lens.  Here are my favorites from the session.

This photo I added just a touch of blue.

The fill light is directly beside her off to the right.  I should have angle it more and brought it in closer.  Though, I did not notice the shadow until it was on my monitor.

Such a great shot.  I found in Aperture, I can remove that shadow behind her.  But with the b&w photo it adds to it (I think anyway).

Several of pictures I was trying out a vignette.  Notice that it took out the shadow behind my wife.  I thought that was pretty clever.

I believe I used my 50mm lens for this next shot.
I want to pick up the LightSphere-II Diffuser Cloud. Hopefully I can get it in a couple of weeks. In the mean time, I am going to cut out the end of an Alcohol plastic bottle and with the help of a rubber band, I have a DIY diffuser.  I compared using the bounce flash without it and with it.  The light seems more even and there are less shadows.  

Several people wanted me to add this photo.  Yes my wife is very beautiful and I am lucky to have her.  I thank God for allowing me to be her husband. :)

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