Bert Stephani
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Drongen, BELGIUM
As part of my workshop 'the Decisive Photographer', I did a one hour live shoot. I wanted to play it fair and didn't check the location or anything in advance. We just took a walk and stopped when we saw some good light, backgrounds, ... for portraits. Thanks to some of the people in the class for modelling.
We wanted to use the lines and reflections of this place. First we got the background well exposed. These settings made our subject go completely black so we had to call in a flash.
A bare 580EX was placed to camera left and we played around with the flash power until we balanced the subject (lit with flash) with the background (natural light). This was shot at 1/100 at f/2.8
Lighting and background could have been better but this shot was made just to show how to balance flash and ambient.
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20080510_TDP_008.jpg
Drongen, BELGIUM
As part of my workshop 'the Decisive Photographer', I did a one hour live shoot. I wanted to play it fair and didn't check the location or anything in advance. We just took a walk and stopped when we saw some good light, backgrounds, ... for portraits. Thanks to some of the people in the class for modelling.
We wanted to use the lines and reflections of this place. First we got the background well exposed. These settings made our subject go completely black so we had to call in a flash.
A bare 580EX was placed to camera left and we played around with the flash power until we balanced the subject (lit with flash) with the background (natural light). This was shot at 1/100 at f/2.8
Lighting and background could have been better but this shot was made just to show how to balance flash and ambient.
Check out my blog: