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Beer & Portraits

Beer & Portraits-6
Originally uploaded by Arclight Images

Hanging at a friend's on a Saturday night...camera comes out....Beer & Portraits.

SB900 with Lumiquest III camera right and just out of frame. Nothing easier than setting a flash to TTL and putting it just out of frame, It creates just as soft a light as a softbox five feet away and you can hold it in your other hand! Sepia post in Lr.

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Self-Porchrait

Self-Porchrait
Originally uploaded by Arclight Images

Warm weather in NJ this weekend so I shot this on my porch. Needed a new icon for all these damn social media sites!!
Strobist- SB900 with Westcott 28" Apollo Softbox camera left but almost on axis...sun behind. Post in Lightroom.

Pop-Down Flash

Pop-Down Flash
Originally uploaded by Arclight Images

We all know that pop-up flash sucks, but it was all I had at the time and this fence just looked awful so I used it. Since I only wanted the bottom half to get the flash and knew I could flip it in post, I turned my camera upside down so the fence would get more of the flash. It made a big difference..it's still a crappy shot, but at least I learned something.

Left half shows the pop-up flash and the right half shows the pop-down flash.