Hi gang. I'm sure there will be more than one answer/comment but i'm interested in your input on this.
Because of the family wedding i'm doing next July, i went out and bought a second Nikon SB800 flash, one to have a spare and two, to use as an off camera, wireless fill light. Paid just as mush for the used one as i did for the new one. :-( Any way, i now have some portrait shots lined up for two of my Managers at the bus company. They have seen a lot of my photos and asked if i could do some boyfriend/girlfriend and or husband and wife stuff. I want to get better at this, so i have agreed. Now, the question(s) are this. If i'm doing this inside their homes, (and i don't have any backdrops), i was thinking of having both flashes set up on tripods at 45 degree angles and use the pop up as commander. Do you think this is a good way to start or would it be better to have one light on the angle and use an on camera speed light as the master. When i did the family Simpson photos in August, it was cloudy and i used one flash on the camera with the supplied softbox as fill and it seemed to give the photos a slight "punch", so i want to utilize this for the portraits. My safety manager, the one that helped me in my quest to get my old run back, has a nice cottage style house, painted white and red on about 10 acres with a nice hard wood bush in the back. I figure the dual fill flash would be helpful here to help add some "punch". They also ride motorcycles so i thought maybe a few with the bikes. I;ll try some inside and out side of their home, just looking for suggestions from the portrait crowd and those that use off camera flash. I' will be practising here, and will have a look at Stroblist. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
