Workshop - Portraits with Indoor Flash

At our photo club, we like to experiment with lighting both natural and artificial. Even if you don't have an external flash, we can usually find a way for everyone to try a bit of off-camera flash.

We had a mini-lesson on lighting, grids, snoots, zoom/wide flash, ratios etc.

And eventually we had a three-light set up going. The key light was shooting into and umbrella. A gridded speedlight off the right of the subject to light the background and a speedlight on the floor shooting onto a make-shift reflector (plastic table) to add a bit of fill on the shadowed side of the subject's face.

Here's our set-up:


And here's the result:


Keith brought his laptop so he was shooting tethered so we could see the results right away. A great tool for teaching!

You can see some of Keith's photos and a few more of mine below:

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