Learn how to balance daylight and flash to create moody lighting for outdoor portraits.
Set Manual mode, shutter speed 1/200 sec, but close the aperture by two stops to underexpose (we went from f/5.6 to f/11).
Set one flash behind the subject, angled towards them. Adjust power manually until it creates a highlight outlining their edge.
03 Light the face
Position a second flash, with the light from above the subject, so that the shadow cast by the nose is angled towards the mouth.
04 Position the lights
For our cross-lighting setup, position the ‘edge’ light behind the subject to illuminate the outline of the body without spilling across the face and nose, while the ‘key’ light should be directed from the front, slightly above and to the right of the face.
Trigger speedlites with your pop-up
We used a wireless trigger to fire our flashguns, but if you don’t have one you could use your DSLR’s pop-up flash instead. Using the Flash Control Menu, your pop-up flash can communicate with compatible Speedlites through a series of rapid pre-flashes.
A simpler method is to simply set the pop-up flash to a low power, like 1/128 (so that it has a minimal effect on the image), then set both off-camera flashes to optical slave mode, so that they fire when they detect the pop-up flash.
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