Portrait at Fallingwater

Ninoska and I went to Fallingwater over the weekend with a few friends. We have been there before so we only got the ground pass. While the others took the house tour we went to take pictures of the house and a portrait of Ninoska.

Ninoska's Portrait at Fallingwater

Ninoska's Portrait at Fallingwater (click for full size)

This portrait was taken around 4:50 PM so the ambient light was very good. However, Ninoska and the closer objects were coming up underexposed; to compensate I used a strobe coming from camera left at just over 1/4 power and with a CTO gel pointed to her. It worked great and left very little shadow as you can see on her back. To get the misty waterfalls I set the camera exposure time to 1/4 of a sec, the aperture to f/11.3 and ISO 100.

Below is one of the pictures I took of the house:

Fallingwater By Frank Lloyd Wright

Fallingwater By Frank Lloyd Wright (click for full size)

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One Response to “Portrait at Fallingwater”

  • Dr. Steve Wright Says:
    December 8th, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    Nice photo! I like exactly the amount of flow you got in the look of the falling water.

    I realize you didn’t take interior photos this time, but do you have some from last time? Or do your friends have some? Any of them on the web?

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