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Ulorin Vex posing for us during part of the on-location session of the flash photography workshops<\/a> which I presented in San Francisco earlier this year. Ulorin Vex is of course absolutely stunning, as always. While I often direct models how they should pose, this one is all her doing . Not even I can improve on that<\/a>.<\/p>\n The image here at the top was shot with an off-camera softbox – my usual preferred Lastolite Ezybox softbox<\/a>. The direction of the light here should immediately reveal the approximate position where the light was positioned. Just as comparison, we removed the two baffles of the Lastolite, to see how direct off-camera flash would compare. We kept the softbox hull in place, so it did help contain the spread of light a bit. As you’d expect, the results look more dramatic.<\/p>\n Here is the pull-back shot. As you’d immediately notice as well, I cloned out the intercom box, and cleaned up some distracting spots and marks on the metallic areas.<\/p>\n With the two comparative images, I wanted to help give an idea of how different the results can be. While my own preference is for soft light, direct off-camera flash is always an option. A softbox (or large umbrella) is a more forgiving light source though than direct flash. You have more leeway in placing your light in relation to your subject if you make it a large light source and diffuse it.<\/p>\n camera settings and details for both images: Lastolite EZYBOX Softbox Kit (24″x24″)<\/a>\u00a0(B&H) <\/p>\n model \u2013 Ulorin Vex<\/a> example: direct off-camera flash vs softbox (model: Ulorin Vex) Ulorin Vex posing for us during part of the on-location session of the flash photography workshops which I presented in San Francisco earlier this year. Ulorin Vex is of course absolutely stunning, as always. While I often direct models how they should pose, this one is Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30259,"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":[15,22,24,110,277,1],"tags":[50,55,880,893],"yst_prominent_words":[9014,1842,6728,6725,6987,6983,9015,6733,6729,2959,8959,1539,5962,5956,6732,6727,6724,6723,1580,5959],"class_list":{"0":"post-9290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-flash-photography","8":"category-lighting","9":"category-models","10":"category-off-camera-flash","11":"category-ulorin-vex","12":"category-uncategorized","13":"tag-canon-flash-photography-tips","14":"tag-flash-photography-techniques","15":"tag-off-camera-flash","16":"tag-ulorin-vex","17":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290"}],"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=9290"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49190,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9290\/revisions\/49190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9290"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/ulorin\/IMG_6090.jpg\")
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\n1\/200 @ f5.6 @ 200 ISO
\nThe 2nd image was over-exposed by around 1.5 stops.
\nThis is due to the light being more concentrated to the center of the image, which will affect the TTL metering compared to the image at the top where the entire area is evenly lit. Since the setting is metallic, that had to affect the TTL exposure metering as well.
\nCanon 5D mark II<\/a> (B&H); \u00a0Canon 24-105mm f\/4L IS<\/a> \u00a0(B&H)
\nThe camera was hand-held with the lens zoomed to 28mm and 40mm respectively.<\/p>\n
\nFlexTT5 transceiver<\/a>\u00a0(B&H); \u00a0AC3 ZoneController<\/a>\u00a0(B&H)
\nset-up as explained in this article on wireless TTL triggers for Canon<\/a><\/p>\nrelated articles<\/h2>\n
\nchange your position to change the direction of light<\/a>\u00a0 (Ulorin Vex in red)
\nmimicking window light with off-camera bounce flash<\/a>\u00a0 (Ulorin Vex in lace & latex corset)
\ndirectional light from off-camera bounce flash<\/a>\u00a0 (Ulorin Vex, Monaco foyer)
\nmanual off-camera fill-flash<\/a>\u00a0(model: Ulorin Vex)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"