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340/365 # No awards for creativity but . . .
This won't win any awards for creativity (see title) but I lit this with one flash, and I never thought I'd be able to get this kind of coverage with just one flash. I've bumped up the exposure and dodged the irises (a bit too much I think) to bring out the colour a bit, and I can't quite get it looking how I like but it's close enough.
This can be one of those shots that isn't really very interesting to anyone except the person that shot it. And sometimes that's good enough.
So, how I lit this in more detail was . . .
. . . an accident actually. I had this idea to shoot the flash through a colander thinking it would give a cool dotted effect, but what it did instead was limit the light hitting my face and bounced the light everywhere else so I was decently lit and had enough light spare to blow out the background. I'm guessing really.
So sorry, this is unbelievably boring to look at but it'll be a helpful reminder to me one day I'm sure on how to get the most of the light from one flash.
Strobist info: SB600 to camera left at 1/2 power with home made diffuser (made out of plastic milk carton) attached and me holding a colander, yes a colander, about 6 inches from the flash.
340/365 # No awards for creativity but . . .
This won't win any awards for creativity (see title) but I lit this with one flash, and I never thought I'd be able to get this kind of coverage with just one flash. I've bumped up the exposure and dodged the irises (a bit too much I think) to bring out the colour a bit, and I can't quite get it looking how I like but it's close enough.
This can be one of those shots that isn't really very interesting to anyone except the person that shot it. And sometimes that's good enough.
So, how I lit this in more detail was . . .
. . . an accident actually. I had this idea to shoot the flash through a colander thinking it would give a cool dotted effect, but what it did instead was limit the light hitting my face and bounced the light everywhere else so I was decently lit and had enough light spare to blow out the background. I'm guessing really.
So sorry, this is unbelievably boring to look at but it'll be a helpful reminder to me one day I'm sure on how to get the most of the light from one flash.
Strobist info: SB600 to camera left at 1/2 power with home made diffuser (made out of plastic milk carton) attached and me holding a colander, yes a colander, about 6 inches from the flash.