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Re: More from Friday, and lessons learned
Old 11-12-2005, 10:32 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Usually to blow out a white background I put two strobe heads on either side of it and set them to 1/2 to 2/3rds fstop over the main light. That is enought to usually blow out the background. Here is a typical light setup for this:



and here is a shot with this lighting setup and the model in white:



I was 1/2 stop over the main for the background light.

By the way it looks like you have a color cast to the photo.

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