Plenty of people have warned me that I would break my camera if I photograph them. It has never been a problem until today. My new soft box and remote camera trigger arrived yesterday. I decided to try them out on myself.
I chose my office as a location since I spend more time behind a keyboard than behind a camera. I wanted an environmental portrait instead of just a head and shoulders.
My Remington sculpture presented a compositional challenge. I wanted to keep it in focus along with myself. I wanted the of the viewer to follow it from left to right until it reached my face. One of the two lights I used is on the sculpture. I'm lit with a second flash using the soft box. I had plenty of ambient light coming from the window on the left. The window light became the fill and the soft box is the main.
I had a few problems with the remote camera trigger. If the camera was inactive for a while, the trigger didn't work. I'll have to do some research. The soft box worked fine until I folded it up to put it away. The metal interior fell apart and cannot be repaired.
