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beauty, Beauty Dish, creative, CT Wedding photographer, education, Elinchrom, fashion, fun, headshots, Lastolite Ezybox, light, Model, modeling, Nikon, Nikon D3, off camera flash, one light, Photoflex shoot through umbrella, Pocket Wizards, portrait, portrait photography, professional photographer, Profoto, Sassy, SB800, SB900, strobist, studio, teaching
Hi and welcome back.
Yesterday I ran a workshop where we mixed strobe lighting with off camera flash. We used a combination of lighting modifiers and techniques to get fantastic results. I tried to show how you can seamlessly integrate the two systems.
Here’s Stacey when she arrived at the studio pre-styling: Nikon SB800 into a Lastolite Ezybox 24 x 24:
Here’s Stacey after makeup and using the mixed source technique.
For this shot: Profoto 300 ws Compact with White Beauty Dish for main light and a SB800 into a Lastolite Ezybox for a bit of separation and skim light on the gold shear:
For this shot we swapped things around a bit: Main light is a SB900 into a Photoflex shoot through umbrella, back light is a Profoto 300 ws Compact and Elinchrom 39 x 39 softbox:
For this last shot in the workshop we really switched things up: Main light is a Profoto 300 ws Compact with a 60″ Photek Softlighter, back light is a bare head SB900 outside the building shooting into the white shear to give a nice bright backdrop:
The workshop was a success! I was able to mix and match lighting systems and use strobes and speedlights for both main and back lighting. And, we even put a speedlight outside in that nasty cold and windy day to light from behind: awesome!
Many thanks to my workshop attendees, Stacey, Sallie’s Airbrush Makeup, and Salon Lui for really going all out for us.
Till next time, happy shooting.
