Female Location Portrait with Off-Camera Flash for Beginners

Female Location Portrait with Off-Camera Flash for Beginners

This is a course about external off camera flash light on location using strobist tecnique. Starting from presenting the gear, camera, trigger, flash and lenses, to properly connect by hotshoe mount and setup them. On a real set in outdoor place I will show how to position light stand, set correct aperture, iso and shutter value. Subject of my image will be a not professional female model, so I'll teach how to manage her choosing right position against backlight of the sun. Use flare and sunray as a creative prop in the scene by underexpose sunlight and correct exposure on the model. Is a crash coursse for beginner, in a single session you could be ready to start shooting by yourself. Onelight method permit you to have fun immediately at firs try because you pay attention only to single illumination element. Many photographer like to obtain a great drama image straight out of camera before post produce the picture, this course is about improve sharpness contrast and make dramatic scene in every condition of natural or available light, expecially on location but you could manage this tecnique also at your home, in a sunny or cloudy day, without modifier the strobe you see in this video make a great strong shadows. This course is open for beginner and intermediate photographer, it helps amateurs and professional photographers who wants to obtain fast good portrait of friends, wife, children and then apply the light scheme also on still life images.

You will learn how to position strobe, manage subject using only one artificial light in every available light condition

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What you will learn

• Be able to manage a single light in a location portraiture set
• Be able to know what do a single strobe light in exterior
• Be able to set up Camera in manual mode to shoot with off camera flash

Rating: 3.75

Level: All Levels

Duration: 1 hour

Instructor: Mauro Prelli