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Off camera flash practice for C&C please

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Still working on my OCF skills ( Or lack there of ) How is both quantity and quality of the overall lighting and added fill flash ?

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In #1 her hair is to bright on the right, and to dark on the right. But I am really just spit balling, I'm sure one of are very smart lighting members will set you straight! :)
 
Not bad... a few thoughts on areas for improvement. As mentioned, in #1, the highlights on her hair, image right are wayyy too hot. You probably needed to drop this down 2-3 stops to get a reasonable exposure for the hair, and then bumped up your fill. This would have given a VERY dark background however, so the best answer might have been to move to a different location, or turn the model slightly. Reflectors also work well for situations like this. You might also have tried getting your flash up and left (if you had OCF capability) so that you could add little more depth with some shadow from the fill. Her face is well exposed, but the lighting is rather flat and unexciting. In #2, the exposure is good, BUT.. the light is again less than exciting.

You've obviously got the 'fill' part sorted out, now you just need to work on making the light (and thus the image) more interesting by using it to maximum effect. Think 'direction', 'shadow' and 'ratio'!

Keep working on it!
 
Thanks John. Flash was OCF and was up and right. I placed her in that harsh backlight to work on balancing fill to that specific lighting so I would be prepared when that's all I had to work with. I'm getting comfortable but I'm a long way from being able to create "interesting" light with the flash. I'm not to "Artsy"............. In the second image I was trying to use fill to obtain a good exposure and detail yet make it look as though no flash was used.
 
Well, in that case, I think you did very well. One of the limitations of using speedlights out of doors is of course that sometimes they simply do not have the 'oomph' to get the expsoure needed.
 
Well, in that case, I think you did very well. One of the limitations of using speedlights out of doors is of course that sometimes they simply do not have the 'oomph' to get the expsoure needed.
 
i think it will be better with some make-up and maybe in dress)she is beautiful
 

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