Abby was looking pretty cute right after her bath today, so I dragged out my Strobist gear to try some on-axis fill flash. I set up my 45 inch Westcott reflective silver umbrella with the SB-26 on 1/2 power and for the on-axis fill used my SB-400 covered with a plastic Country Time Lemonade container over it as a diffuser. (The lemonade now resides in a Zip-Loc bag in a kitchen cabinet.) The point is to throw some light to soften the shadows created by the main light. Now, David Hobby uses a ring light as his on-axis flash. I don’t have a ring light. I’m not even sure I know what a ring light is. I had to make do with my DIY rig.

I think I was supposed to use a hard light source as the key light. Maybe just the bare flash without the umbrella. Oh well, I think they turned out pretty nice. I did do the hard light thing for the next pic.

The shoe set-up I just flat stole from the Strobist. Abby has pounded some pavement with these shoes with the bling on top. I have been wanting to take a few pics of them just to have as a reminder of the stuff she had when she was a toddler, but I wasn’t very inspired as to how to go about it. Then the Strobist posted a description of how he shot some shoes and I thought I’d give it a try. My set-up was the SB-26 gridded at camera right at 1/64 power and the SB-400 Country Time Lemonade special on the camera, f/11. The more I look at this one, the more I like it. The shoes almost look 3D.