i got the whole big lighting setup out because i needed a passport photo (might as well get a good looking ID photo for once right eh? i can even print it myself) and then i had it set up and figured i could take some non-passport photos as well. here's one! i think i'm starting to figure out this whole "portraiture" deal
technical junk: canon eos m200 / sigma art dc hsm 18-35mm f/1.8 (at 24mm f/9) / minor lightroom tweaks
obviously all kinds of strobes involved - alien bees b400 with an umbrella slightly camera right for key, the m200's own flash1 and a godox lux senior on a tripod for fill, and the white lightning ultra 1600 set up to blow out the background and get some rim lighting off the bounce (this setup took quite a while to nail down). i think there was a ND filter involved as well to help me get a handle on the ambient light / secondary reflections
1the eos m200 doesn't have a flash sync output so I had to trigger the studio lights off something. if i was setting this up with my DSLR i wouldn't use the built-in flash but i wanted the m200's extra resolution (this is cropped fairly tight)
