Elinchrom-Quadra-for-Portraits-web
This I learned from shooting soccer school kids as a pro. This is not the hard thing. The hard thing is getting 150 kids to smile every working day. For outdoor portraits, place the subject in the shadow - and try to get a pleasant sun lit background. Set the aperture and shutter speed according to the background. Use the camera meter/histogram or a hand held light meter. Use flashes for lighting the subject. Sometimes you'll need a HSS flash kit, and not something like the Elinchrom Quadra kit. However, the Elinchrom kit has modelling light too, which may be usable for portraits. For Elinchrom quadra batteries are still available suys Elinchrom Support (july 2020). It is possible to use a beauty dish, softboxes or umbrellas with hte Elinchrom kit. This set-up is naturally useable for speedlight flashes too - perhaps Pentax flashes and Cactus V 6ii trigger/receivers. Or Godox flashes and Godox X-PRO trigger. Such speedlight set-ups can be used in HSS mode if necessary
Elinchrom-Quadra-for-Portraits-web
This I learned from shooting soccer school kids as a pro. This is not the hard thing. The hard thing is getting 150 kids to smile every working day. For outdoor portraits, place the subject in the shadow - and try to get a pleasant sun lit background. Set the aperture and shutter speed according to the background. Use the camera meter/histogram or a hand held light meter. Use flashes for lighting the subject. Sometimes you'll need a HSS flash kit, and not something like the Elinchrom Quadra kit. However, the Elinchrom kit has modelling light too, which may be usable for portraits. For Elinchrom quadra batteries are still available suys Elinchrom Support (july 2020). It is possible to use a beauty dish, softboxes or umbrellas with hte Elinchrom kit. This set-up is naturally useable for speedlight flashes too - perhaps Pentax flashes and Cactus V 6ii trigger/receivers. Or Godox flashes and Godox X-PRO trigger. Such speedlight set-ups can be used in HSS mode if necessary