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Flash and camera settings

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Flash and camera settings

- This is a fairly sizable room, which might speak to a bigger flash, but the idea I have for a photograph is going to speak, I think, to control. So there will be a role, I feel, for speedlights here. But this will be a fairly simple picture. We have a Lastolite Octa, an Ezybox Octa, which has a receptacle that you can fit two speedlights into, so I have two SB-5000's controlled with a radio. I can speak to those lights. That technology's working fine. And I'm going to do a flash and burn, if you will, or a flash pop with ambient exposure. Alright, it's not bad light, but we're getting some shadowing, because we're blending in so much of the fluorescent. What we're going to need to do is throw down a Lastolite TriGrip silver up. We could even take a Magic Arm, if we wanted to, off of the main C, and we'll bounce it. The bounce needs to originate right here by camera. Two speedlights, softbox, ambient light for the background. So shutter speed addresses my environment, my f-stop…

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