By Udi Tirosh, June 8, 2016
THIS SHORT VIDEO SHOWS HOW ONE SOFT LIGHT CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN FINAL RESULT
There is a lot of power you can master once you go from available light to even using one strobe. PhotographerManuel Ortiz demonstrates it in this short video where he compares two shots right out of camera (of course the photos can be later enhanced, but for the sake of this experiment, it is better to show them SOOC)
All photos are taken with the Sony A7RII and a Sony G master 85mm 1.4 lens which really gives great color and a wonderful bokeh, so the starting point is very similar. The first shoo in all the demos below is set to available light. Note how Diana (the model) is correctly exposed in all of those, but the background is very distracting and it really takes away from the photo.
Then Manuel add a strobe in: Flashpoint Xplor 600 TTL strobe, connected to a Godox X1T trigger which supports sync up to 1/8000 in a
Paul C buff 47inch Octabox. The high speed allows cutting the ambient exposure by two stops and the flash still makes sure that the model is correctly exposed. And this is all happening at F1.4.
