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Light Modifiers for Flashguns - part 4 of 1 2 3 4 5

by Tom Lee Published 01/06/2008

Well the detail shots seem to work just fine, so how do portraits look? The Indian bride with red flowers was taken on the same wedding as above with the lighting coming from the left. The bride's extensive family decided to line up in front of it to watch proceedings, blocking out about 2/3 of it! I don't speak Hindi and the bride was far too excited to care, so I just got on with it. The flash was still set up for the bride accessory photos, in beauty dish mode and flash on the hot shoe. Although a little hotter than I expected the resulting image is shadowless and not dissimilar to a fashion lighting set-up I might use in the studio. There is still enough light coming from the left to add shape and dimension to the portrait, so it's not a completely flat image.

At another wedding I wanted to try out some of the other attachments. This job was not so frenetic so we had a little more time to play. Making use of the multiple flash modes of the Nikon SB800 speed lights, I set the on camera flash into master mode with 3 stops underexposure (fill flash). A second flash was set up to slave mode and set at 1.5 stops underexposure. This unit was fitted with the Softlite and white Fresnel screen off camera at 45° left and resulted in the shaped light seen in the high-key seated bride. The combination of control offered by the speed lights and light modifier has resulted in an image that would be difficult to achieve in a cramped living room of a bride's house minutes before leaving in the car.

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