Off Camera Lighting Outdoors

The sun almost always the main light source outdoors acts like a spotlight when high overhead like a portrait light from 45 degrees up and off axis like a hair light from behind and above the subjects or low and warm colored at sunset.

Off camera lighting outdoors.

Most off camera ttl cords have a 20 and or 3 8 thread that enables you to mount the flash on an off camera flash bracket or light stand. My go to setup is a front light at 45 degrees with a grid and another flash behind the subject. There are so many times when existing light just doesn t give you the result you desire and that flash could be a solution to. As mentioned by michael scholle at 3 35 note the area he points to does not face your camera.

Now coming back to the question of full body images with off camera flash. With an off camera flash you now have the option to use any lens you wish to for making full body portraits. Off camera flash is a great way to augment your existing photographs. By moving your flash off to one side or the other and then combining your flash with a light modifier such as a diffuser beauty dish or small soft box you create a lighting effect far more pleasing than.

90mm lens iso 400 f 4 5 1 20th 183mm iso 400 f 4 5 1 13th. Off camera flash is quite an extensive topic. Instead of trying to cover it all in just one article here this page will serve as a jump page to several of the important articles on the tangents blog where the topic is specifically off camera lighting. Now we are ready to figure out the off camera lighting setup.

Normally when a photographer shoots full body portraits a telephoto zoom lens such as a 70 200mm is used. Here are a few examples of how i ve used off camera flash for outdoor portraits and a lighting diagram of where i placed the flash for each. In this video i demonstrate how to use off camera flash outdoors in 3 minutes. With the backlight i ll either have the light aimed at the couple to give them a glow or i ll aim it at the background to show off the structure more.

Full body images with off camera flash. You might find it helpful to think of your location portrait setting as a clock or compass with your subject in the middle and the camera and light sources arranged. The flash trigger sensor is a small round window ab.