Work At Home Mom and Kid (How I lit the shot)

This image is steadily gaining grounds among my stock photos. It has been sold quite a number of times already. You can see the image here.

Thought I'd share with you how I lit it.

This is a three light set up, one for the mom, the other for the kid lying on the couch and another to fill in the shadows.

The first speedlight is domed, bounced off a white paper taped onto the screen of the laptop. The next speedlight is as camera left, zoomed to 200mm and aimed at the kid. The third speedlight is behind the camera and bounced off the ceiling. This third speedlight fill in the deep shadows produced by the hard lights.

Camera settings were ISO 200, f5.6, 1/200th.

Hope this helps. Happy shooting!

Kid with Laptop, smartphone and tablet (How I lit this one)

I just had a notification from Shutterstock that as of June 17, 2015, this image have downloaded 50 times!  It has been online with them since November 2014. I'm not really sure what a good number of downloads in a given period of time is, but I'm pretty psyched about the performance of this image. It's actually part of a series but this one stood out among the rest.

Thought I'd share with you how I lit this one.

I used four speedlights for this one. 3 of them gelled with red, blue and green accordingly. Key light was placed on the laptop, domed and bounced against a typewriting paper taped onto the screen. Another speedlight at camera right, which was placed at the far end of the room, was gelled blue and bounced on the ceiling. This gave the overall blue cast in the room. A third speedlight gelled green, still at camera right, was aimed at our our tech savvy kid. Then the final speedlight gelled red was placed on the floor, behind the bed and aimed at the wall.

I can't recall the actual power settings of the speedlight as they seasoned to taste. As for the camera settings, ISO 200, 1/200 and f 5.6

Aside from Shutterstock, this image is also live online(and proud to  report that is also doing well) at Dreamstime, Depositphotos,  Bigstock and 123rf. Please check it out.

Hope this helps. Happy shooting.