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Female Location Portrait with Off-Camera Flash for Beginners

1 hour on-demand video

$ 12.99

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Brief Introduction

You will learn how to position strobe, manage subject using only one artificial light in every available light condition

Description

This is a course about external off camera flash light on location using strobist tecnique. Starting from presenting the gear, camera, trigger, flash and lenses, to properly connect by hotshoe mount and setup them. On a real set in outdoor place I will show how to position light stand, set correct aperture, iso and shutter value. Subject of my image will be a not professional female model, so I'll teach how to manage her choosing right position against backlight of the sun. Use flare and sunray as a creative prop in the scene by underexpose sunlight and correct exposure on the model. Is a crash coursse for beginner, in a single session you could be ready to start shooting by yourself. Onelight method permit you to have fun immediately at firs try because you pay attention only to single illumination element. Many photographer like to obtain a great drama image straight out of camera before post produce the picture, this course is about improve sharpness contrast and make dramatic scene in every condition of natural or available light, expecially on location but you could manage this tecnique also at your home, in a sunny or cloudy day, without modifier the strobe you see in this video make a great strong shadows. This course is open for beginner and intermediate photographer, it helps amateurs and professional photographers who wants to obtain fast good portrait of friends, wife, children and then apply the light scheme also on still life images.

Requirements

Requirements
You need to able to switch camera in M Manual mode (don't mind about setting, I'll tell you)
To practise with this tecnique you have to got a SLR Camera with Hotshoe (external camera flash predisposition)
To practise with off camera flash you need a flash, many type available, and a radio trigger to command flash.
This tecnique work also with cheap trigger and flash. No need HSS trigger or expensive studio strobe

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