Fired, strobe return light

Just a little portrait shooting, but with quite some variation.

Fired, no strobe return light

So let's take a look at one more.

Fired

Strobe return

Strobe return light detected

The model is lit from two sides with shoot through umbrellas

I will use my kitchen paper as a diffuser.

No strobe return light detected

No strobe return detection

Today I would like to show you a onelight setup.

It's pointing towards her face at 45 degrees.

I know myself. I know I will forget to attach gels.

The same on the other side with speed light B.

And this is what I am going to do

Just above the table at a 45 degrees angle. That's speedlight A.

So you can see how easy this is.

Is it all right to use a flash here?

Simple, white, a little bit transparent kitchen paper.

That s it. Nothing more.

Again I will use the on camera flash to trigger the speedlights.

Of course I'm shooting with open aperture.

I can probably answer the question

I will start with 1 4 of the power for each of them.

This is speed light A, and I will have the model sitting over here, and I will have the speedlight a bit higher coming from this side.

I 'm just opening a large 72 Phottix Para Pro shoot through umbrella and

Only then it's really looking like rubber and really looking like latex.

In case I want to have the bright background,

It's 2 meters tall and 45 centimeters wide, white styrofoam, pointed at the model, and to light that we fired two speedlights against the styrofoam.

You know, that would be really asking for trouble.

Since she has got black hair and probably I will have her wearing a black hat,

I will use two speedlights as my main light sources.

Sometimes I m shooting mixed light.

It's a white shoot through umbrella at roughly a height of 1.60 meter.

So all I have is one speedlight, and, fortunately,

Well, why not use the white wall over here as a bouncer?

So either the batteries failed or the zoom of the speedlights was missadjusted, but this can happen when you have two photographers both draining from very small speedlights.

A white shower curtain, a bit translucent, which acts as a great diffuser for flashlight.

This is the cupboard I am going to use to simulate a softbox.

When I now shoot her against the light, then this will be brightened by this speedlight.

The musician is throwing me special looks and makes special moves just for me if I'm nice and if I cheer them up.

Or, if I change sides and I shoot from that side of the stage, then Cousin Jade will change to the other side.

I power this baby with two speedlights.

Now I am going to show you one of my favorite Lightroom tricks that I use all the time when am doing beauty or glamour or fashion kind of photography.