Friday, 22 June 2012

How To Use Off Camera Strobe For Fashion

If your shooting late in the day with that beautiful gold contrasty light but its going as the sun goes down.

I am often in this situation but still need to shoot pictures that day.

Like on a shoot I was doing in Wester Australia last December for a swimwear catalogue for MISSKINI.

We were shooting our last collection of swimwear for the day but the sun was going down very fast and I still had 4 shots left and they need to have a concistency with the rest of the shots Id been doing.

This is how I got over the problem:

I had an assistant holding a 1mtr gold foil reflector up to the side of myself so if I aim a flash gun onto the reflector it would bounces lovely golden light onto my modeI, I set the flash exposure to be approx 1 to 2 stops under the ambient reading taken from my models position.

This is one of the shots taken this way.



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