Off Camera Lighting Outdoors

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.

Off camera lighting outdoors.

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. Lighting in the simplest possible terms is all about main light and fill light. 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 quite an extensive topic.

As mentioned by michael scholle at 3 35 note the area he points to does not face your camera. Full body images with off camera flash. 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. 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.

I use high speed sync giving me the ability to use any shutter speed i want w. 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. 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. Now coming back to the question of full body images with off camera flash.

90mm lens iso 400 f 4 5 1 20th 183mm iso 400 f 4 5 1 13th. 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. My go to setup is a front light at 45 degrees with a grid and another flash behind the subject. The flash trigger sensor is a small round window ab.

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. Off camera flash is a great way to augment your existing photographs.