High Key Studio Set Up for F2.8

High key lighting with studio flash can be quite an art to get the balance right so that the background is "burnt out"(over exposed) but to ensure that the subject is correctly exposed.

With studio flash this generally means high F stops of F8 or more. So if you would like to use a wide aperture of F2.8 or wider to get a shallow depth of field this can create an issue.

One way to get around this is use continuous lighting for the subject which is is generally less powerful than flash, and still use flash for the over exposed background. As was done here with a resent studio rental where the Photographer wanted a very shallow depth of filed and a very high key look.

The above picture of the very lovely Model (Wendy Louise) was captured @ F2.8 1/200 sec.
There were two flash head high bouncing off up on the the back wall,  giving that very high key look but the detail is kept in the white sheet and skin with the us of two continuous lights kept low to the ground in front of of the Model.

There is a slight colour temperature difference between with flash being 5500K and the continuous lights being 5200K but with digital photography this can easily be corrected in post productions as in this case getting good whites and pleasing skin tone at around 5350 K.

At J16 Studio I am always happy to help photographers get the very best from their studio rental and I would like to thank Mark D Houlton for allowing me to capture these images of this  set up and his lovely model for the day.