{"id":11851,"date":"2012-10-31T00:20:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T04:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=11851"},"modified":"2018-08-04T21:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T01:26:39","slug":"multiple-speedlite-portrait-setup-rogue-flashbenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/multiple-speedlite-portrait-setup-rogue-flashbenders\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple speedlite portrait setup using Rogue Flashbenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/guest\/corsentino\/ExpoImaging-Demo-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"901\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Multiple speedlite portrait setup using Rogue Flashbenders<\/h1>\n<p>The PDN Photo Plus Expo in New York took place last week. As always, it&#8217;s it&#8217;s always a bit of a head-rush walking around, overwhelmed by all the photography goodies and people. Of course, you&#8217;ll inevitably bump into old friends and catch up a bit. One of them, is Michael Corsentino who I met during the <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/category\/after-dark-edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After Dark photo conventions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is Michael Corsentino a pre-eminent wedding photographer in San Francisco, but has also written a book &#8211; the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/111811289X\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=111811289X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=planeneilphot-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canon Speedlite System Digital Field Guide<\/a>\u00a0(<em>Amazon<\/em>). If you like his style, follow him on Twitter @corsentino<\/p>\n<p>When I randomly saw this photograph later on on his FB feed, my reaction was &#8230; damn!<\/p>\n<p>He had photographed Anelisa at the Rogue Flashbenders stand for a demo. So I was curious about the exact lighting setup, and\u00a0asked him if I could repost it here, along with an explanation and the lighting diagram &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/guest\/corsentino\/lighting-diagram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/guest\/corsentino\/lighting-diagram-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Michael used multiple\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/recommends\/canon-600ex-rt-speedlite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canon 600EX-RT speedlites<\/a>\u00a0(<em>affiliate<\/em>) and <strong>Rogue Flashbenders<\/strong> for this portrait.<\/p>\n<p><strong>camera settiings:\u00a0<\/strong> 1\/125 @ f10 @ 100 ISO<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/recommends\/canon-5d-mk-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canon 5D Mark III<\/a>; \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/recommends\/canon-24-70mm-f2-8-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canon 24-70mm f\/2.8L II<\/a>\u00a0@ 65mm<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The set up with the 4 Speedlights positioned and modified as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Key-light placed camera right with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/707213-REG\/ExpoImaging_ROGUERELG_Rogue_FlashBender_Large_Positionable.html\/BI\/2096\/KBID\/2822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">large Rogue Flash Bender<\/a>\u00a0(<em>B&amp;H<\/em>), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/830424-REG\/ExpoImaging_ROGUEDFPLG_Rogue_Diffusion_Panel_Large.html\/BI\/2096\/KBID\/2822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rogue Diffusion Panel<\/a> (<em>B&amp;H<\/em>),<\/li>\n<li>camera left rim light &#8211; Speedlight with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/761614-REG\/ExpoImaging_ROGUEGRID_Rogue_Grid.html\/BI\/2096\/KBID\/2822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rogue 45\u00ba grid spot<\/a>\u00a0(<em>B&amp;H<\/em>),<\/li>\n<li>background light placed camera right also with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/761614-REG\/ExpoImaging_ROGUEGRID_Rogue_Grid.html\/BI\/2096\/KBID\/2822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rogue 45\u00ba grid spot<\/a> (<em>B&amp;H<\/em>),\u00a0to create a nice glow on the background,<\/li>\n<li>camera left and behind the subject is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/c\/product\/707213-REG\/ExpoImaging_ROGUERELG_Rogue_FlashBender_Large_Positionable.html\/BI\/2096\/KBID\/2822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rogue Flash bender<\/a> (<em>B&amp;H)<\/em>\u00a0bent into a snoot shape and aimed at the top of her head to provide a highlight and additional separation form the background.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple speedlite portrait setup using Rogue Flashbenders The PDN Photo Plus Expo in New York took place last week. As always, it&#8217;s it&#8217;s always a bit of a head-rush walking around, overwhelmed by all the photography goodies and people. Of course, you&#8217;ll inevitably bump into old friends and catch up a bit. One of them,&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/multiple-speedlite-portrait-setup-rogue-flashbenders\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more inside&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[431,18,110],"tags":[432,213,112,67],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anelisa-durham","8":"category-guest-spot","9":"category-off-camera-flash","10":"tag-modifiers-for-flash-photography","11":"tag-multiple-off-camera-flash","12":"tag-off-camera-flash-photography","13":"tag-off-camera-lighting-for-portraits","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11851"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45693,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions\/45693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11851"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}