{"id":13219,"date":"2013-01-29T04:04:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T08:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=13219"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T11:49:18","slug":"flash-photography-tips-and-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/flash-photography-tips-and-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash photography tips and ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I met German photographer, Tilo Gockel \/ fotopraxis<\/a>, during one of his visits to New York. Seeing this photo on his blog<\/a> recently, immediately reminded me of my recent first attempt at playing with colored gels and flash<\/a> .. except that he did it better!<\/p>\n

So I asked Tilo if he’d translate his article for us into English. It’s always good to get another angle on doing something. There are a couple of good tips and ideas in there. Thanks Tilo!<\/p>\n

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Flash photography tips and\u00a0ideas<\/h2>\n

a guest post by Tilo Gockel<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Hi everyone, I feel very honored that Neil invited me to write a guest post for the famous Tangents blog. So here we go, I hope you\u2019ll enjoy it!<\/p>\n

As probably most of you, I am a big fan of Neil\u2019s work, of the Black Foamie Thing<\/a> and of other concepts, and so I am trying to adapt these new techniques to my own lighting vocabulary and also to include these concepts in my workshops. So this is what we did on the last workshop here in Aschaffenburg \/ Germany.<\/p>\n

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1. Bounce flash<\/h2>\n

These are the tricks we used for the bounce shot. Camera on \u2018M\u2019 and with settings, that make the background darker and less prominent. White balance on \u2018cloudy\u2019 for a warmer look and nice skintones, flash on TTL and directed to the wall. And then we just had to direct the model also a bit towards the wall to get a nice short-light effect (please excuse the blur, Elvira just moved her hands a bit this moment.<\/p>\n

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Yessss, it was lit with flash, using the famous BFT. So small, but so versatile – this is still my favorite light-former. As you can see, it got a little facelift to make it … well, not better, but perhaps more \u2018elegant\u2019. :-)<\/p>\n

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2. Light through lace<\/h2>\n

Now the next setup gives a bit of variety: We used bare flash through a lace umbrella. It is an easy setup, but it is full of possibilities. One bare flash on a distance to give that shadow pattern, a second bare flash with a red gel directed to the background wall, that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

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3. Colored gels and flash<\/h2>\n

The last setup from this workshop is directly inspired by one of the last blog postings from Neil (Neil, I hope you don\u2019t mind :-). Neil created this setup with these fabulous colors and I just had to copy this. The gel colors stem from the \u201cHonl Filter Kit Autumn\u201d which is also available in Germany but (at least in my eyes) way to expensive. But, at least for usage with speedlites, you can use the corrresponding colored gels from the cheap \u201cLEE Swatch Book\u201d. These are the corresponding colors (we used blue-green and salmon):
\n\u2022 Honl Rust = LEE 777 Rust
\n\u2022 Honl Medium Blue-Green = LEE 116 Medium Blue-Green
\n\u2022 Honl Egg Yolk Yellow = LEE 768 Egg Yolk
\n\u2022 Honl Dark Salmon = LEE 008 Dark Salmon
\n\u2022 Honl Chocolate= LEE 156 Chocolate<\/p>\n

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And this is a simple and cheap method for attaching the gels to your speedlite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And this is how I learned this stuff. This is a snapshot and two results from my workshop with Neil in NYC, at the Meatpacking District. :-) That was very educational and fun, too. If you ever have the chance to do a workshop with Neil, go for it, it is definitly worth it!!<\/p>\n

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