This is one of my students in today’s class at Niagara School of Imaging (held at Brock University).
Awesome, no?
How did I shoot that? Simple.
- A camera set to manual; 200 ISO, 1/200th sec, f/8. This makes the background go away, and 200 ISO and f/8 is enough to make the background look dark (it was a normal classroom).
- My 24-70mm lens.
- A Pocketwizard II Plus (Tx) on the camera.
- A second Pocketwizard II Plus (Rx); connected via a Flashzebra cable to a Canon 580EX II flash (any flash will do).
- The flash set to manual power, 1/16th.
- This flash is on the table, on our right; with no modifiers at all, aimed straight at the subject’s face.
Once you know, it’s simple. 1/16th power was my first guess, and it happened to be right. If it had not been, I would have adjusted.
Simple can be good enough – it can be great!
Hi Michael,
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http://clientsfromhell.net/post/29906485033/this-applies-to-a-lot-of-freelancer-and-creative.
Thanks for your great posts.
Martin
Thanks, and you are welcome!