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I had the opportunity to meet up with a fellow South African photographer, Jaco Fourie, who was visiting New York for a few days.\u00a0 I knew Jaco’s work from some of the forums that he posts on, and his work with flash was invariably quite impressive .. so I looked on this as a great opportunity to see another photographer work and learn from him.<\/p>\n
I arranged for two models, and we met up in Manhattan for these photo sessions.\u00a0 Jaco specifically wanted scenic views of Manhattan, and incorporate the model as part of the urban landscape.\u00a0\u00a0 It would be less meaningful to reduce the images so that they looked like they could’ve been taken anywhere.\u00a0 So he shot wide and allowed the landscape room in his images.\u00a0 And to make the model really stand out, he used a very simple arrangement of two speedlights on light stands – direct manual flash, triggered by pocket wizards. I was very impressed with his results, which you can see here on his blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n When working outdoors, my approach has largely been that of using a softbox or some modifier so that my flash is more diffuse. Working in very bright light though, I had to\u00a0use direct flash off-camera, instead of the softbox. I used a Quantum flash for these images.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The image at the top was taken at 1\/250th @ f18 @ 200 ISO … and with a speedlight or a Q-flash, that kind of aperture isn’t attainable when you stuff the flash inside a softbox.\u00a0 You’d need a much larger flash, or a studio strobe.\u00a0 So direct flash it had to be.\u00a0 But taking it off-camera, and positioned in a way to augment the sunlight, and even over-power the sunlight falling on our model, it looked quite dramatic.<\/p>\n [ settings:\u00a0 1\/250th @ f16 @ 200 ISO, with\u00a0manual off-camera flash ]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n using direct, bare (un-modified) off-camera flash I had the opportunity to meet up with a fellow South African photographer, Jaco Fourie, who was visiting New York for a few days.\u00a0 I knew Jaco’s work from some of the forums that he posts on, and his work with flash was invariably quite impressive .. so I Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30407,"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":[15,590,22,24,31],"tags":[112],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-flash-photography","8":"category-lea-liu","9":"category-lighting","10":"category-models","11":"category-photo-shoot","12":"tag-off-camera-flash-photography","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675"}],"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=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33033,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/33033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/flash\/NV2_0743-edit.jpg\")
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