Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Technique Tuesday - Perfectly Perfect Lighting - Part 2 - Balancing Off-Camera Flash With On-Camera Flash

Good afternoon everybody,
Today we have the second part of our off-camera flash lighting tutorial. In this tutorial, I'll discuss placement of the second light when photographing groups, the amount of fill light from the on-camera flash to maintain the dimensional look I want to preserve, and the final tweak in Photoshop. It's a good one I hope you enjoy it. As I mentioned yesterday, I'll keep it on the front page this time so it doesn't get missed. I've also posted last week's Part 1 on the front page too so if you missed it, watch it first, then hit Part 2. Anyway just enjoy! -David


Here is Part 1.

5 comments:

  1. Killer series if videos David. Thanks for posting these... Gavin

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  2. Thanks for the fun and informative videos. I'm particularly fascinated by the changes in 3 dimensions as you balance flash with ambient light: background luminosity, depth of shadow, and color temperature on your subject.

    In the examples you show, I assume that you didn't gel the flash, which separates your subject from the background nicely. Are there situations where you prefer to gel?

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  3. How high up off the ground does the assistant hold up the umbrella?? 6ft???

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  4. Great tutorial David. Check out this link:

    http://www.diyphotography.net/lighting-diagrams

    Might be of some assistance for diagramming in the future.

    Steve

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  5. Steve, Thanks for the great link. -David

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