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Creative Way of Using Flashes


This video shows how you can use flashes even on a sunny day to get really creative photos. The cross effect is achieved because two flashes light the subject from different sides, crossing their rays at the subject.

One flash is directed down at 45 degrees and the other one is placed on the ground. Both of them are controlled from the built in (pop up) flash on the camera. The upper flash has a colored filter and therefore it gives warmer light, while the other one gives colder light. It adds to the effect.

The camera is set to 1/125 sec shutter speed and f22 aperture. Flashes are manually set to half power.

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2 Comments for Creative Way of Using Flashes leave one →
2010 February 16
Mars permalink

Fantastic stuff!

One question, how on earth did you manually focus the subject(yourself) and get a sharp result without even standing in front of the camera before setting the timer??

Very confused

Mars9

2010 April 19
k2luvs permalink

Does the on camera flash make a difference? Since it is the commander I didn’t think that it fired during exposure, it just talks to the other flashes and fires them.  This is cool though!

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