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Before we went in to Times Square with the Modern Gypsies<\/a>, we did a quick portrait session with one of the Modern Gypsies performers, Bird Girl …<\/p>\n We wanted to give a sense of freedom and have her against a backdrop unencumbered with urban clutter. \u00a0Just trees and space. \u00a0I lay down on the ground and shot up towards where she was standing on a low sloping wall.<\/p>\n As with previous examples in this site, we get a basic ambient exposure that is close to correct, and then add flash to clean up the light.\u00a0 Here I decided to use wireless TTL flash, with the Slaved flash in the Lasotlite EZYBOX softbox<\/a>, held up at camera right. \u00a0Since the flash was just fill flash to make the photo pop a bit, my flash exposure compensation (FEC) was turned down to -2EV.<\/p>\n As comparison, here’s the same image but without flash:<\/p>\n More articles on off-camera flash …<\/a><\/p>\n Equipment used during this photo session: Before we went in to Times Square with the Modern Gypsies, we did a quick portrait session with one of the Modern Gypsies performers, Bird Girl …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30433,"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":[15,22,429,31,42],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-flash-photography","8":"category-lighting","9":"category-modern-gypsies","10":"category-photo-shoot","11":"category-technique","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987"}],"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=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50303,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions\/50303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}off-camera flash as fill-flash<\/h1>\n
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\n1\/250 @ f3.2 @ 500 ISO .. TTL flash, -2EV
\nNikon D3;\u00a0Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S II \u2026 at 170mm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/photo-session\/modern-gypsies\/NV2_6350.jpg\")
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\nNikon D3; \u00a0Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S VR II<\/a> (B&H); \u00a0Nikon SB-900<\/a> (B&H)
\nLastolite EZYBOX 24×24 softbox<\/a> (B&H)
\nManfrotto 680B monopod<\/a> (B&H);
\nbrass stud to attach softbox to monopod<\/a> (B&H)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"