Playing with Off-Camera Lighting
Posted on July 10th, 2007 in Photoblog |
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I spent some time this weekend experimenting with off camera lighting. Above is one my more successful attempts. This was shot on my coffee table, the top of which is frosted glass. The flash sat on a shelf directly below the subject.
Setup: 20D on tripod, 100mm macro lens. Lighting consisted of 580EX off camera (connected to Off Camera Shoe Cord 2, attached to ebay wireless receiver – to prevent random firing). 580EX at 1/128th power. Homemade snoot attached to flash to contain the light. Piece of paper hand held above the subject as a makeshift reflector. I still had to use a little shadow recovery in PS to recover some detail on the top (my piece of paper wasn’t very reflective).
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