Bert Stephani
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Anderlecht, BELGIUM
The guys from Canon asked me if I could do some workshops at the Canon Eos Discovery Days. It was a bit weird for me to do this in front of such a huge and diverse audience in a really short time but it was big fun and I met tons of great people.
For those who couldn't be there or didn't understand my very special interpretation of the French language, I decided to try to replicate my workshop on my blog. 3 new posts are coming up.
LIGHTING INFO
I guess most people know me from my off-camera flash stuff, but I wanted to share some tricks for down-and-dirty work with the flash ON the camera. Because sometimes that's the only possible solution. You probably won't make masterpieces but you may just as well to try to squeeze the most out of it.
I tried showing some techniques by a series of 3 photographs. I did the first one with the camera in P-mode and letting all those clever Japanese inside do the work. The picture didn't turn out particulary well, so I switched to Manual mode for the second picture. In these kind of situations I always look for light in the background to get more depth and separation between the subject and the background. I lowered the shutterspeed and increased the ISO to let more available light in. The flash does the rest.
The last step was to create an off-camera light source without getting the flash off the camera. Many people know the technique to bounce flash onto the ceiling but never take it a step further while there so much other stuff you can bounce the light on and gain more control over your lighting. I picked somebody with a white-ish shirt/sweater out of the audience to stand on my left side, so I could bounce the flash on his/her clothes. My message is that there's often uncoventional lighting equipment to be found just about anywhere.
Check out the photoset to see how the shot evolved
Check out my blog:
20081121_canon-eos-discovery_041.jpg
Anderlecht, BELGIUM
The guys from Canon asked me if I could do some workshops at the Canon Eos Discovery Days. It was a bit weird for me to do this in front of such a huge and diverse audience in a really short time but it was big fun and I met tons of great people.
For those who couldn't be there or didn't understand my very special interpretation of the French language, I decided to try to replicate my workshop on my blog. 3 new posts are coming up.
LIGHTING INFO
I guess most people know me from my off-camera flash stuff, but I wanted to share some tricks for down-and-dirty work with the flash ON the camera. Because sometimes that's the only possible solution. You probably won't make masterpieces but you may just as well to try to squeeze the most out of it.
I tried showing some techniques by a series of 3 photographs. I did the first one with the camera in P-mode and letting all those clever Japanese inside do the work. The picture didn't turn out particulary well, so I switched to Manual mode for the second picture. In these kind of situations I always look for light in the background to get more depth and separation between the subject and the background. I lowered the shutterspeed and increased the ISO to let more available light in. The flash does the rest.
The last step was to create an off-camera light source without getting the flash off the camera. Many people know the technique to bounce flash onto the ceiling but never take it a step further while there so much other stuff you can bounce the light on and gain more control over your lighting. I picked somebody with a white-ish shirt/sweater out of the audience to stand on my left side, so I could bounce the flash on his/her clothes. My message is that there's often uncoventional lighting equipment to be found just about anywhere.
Check out the photoset to see how the shot evolved
Check out my blog: