![]() ![]() Now our white wall is totally black, which means we can make it anything with a second strobe. This is all because of key-to-subject distance. Another bennie is that we have the ability to take that nearby white wall to black. Even dialed way down we will get plenty of aperture to hold focus through the face. So, our key is relatively powerful because it is in very close. You really need some sort of boom on this - gotta get that light right out front, and you do not want it moving. (I end up using that outfit chopped into separate parts just as often as I use it together.) The "boom" holding up the SB-800 / SB-III keylight is the flash arm off of a CSB Micro Mini. Here is the setup shot, courtesy Syl Arena. Not nearly as out-there as what Peter Yang did earlier, but definitely on the same branch of the family tree. ![]() That's why the light gets darker as a crawls up Brett's head. Which, in turn, created a more coming-into-a-shaft-of-light look. This gave the shaft of downlight a more defined edge. So we gobo'd the edge closest to Brett with two strips of gaffer's tape to make a quickie barn door. Even so - and even with the control you get with the SB-III - his hair was still a little hot. Actually, it is even pointed a tad away from him and back toward me. The shaft is hard (-ish) and pointed straight down. If we come in high and in front of Brett, we create a shaft of "third-degree" -type light that you might see in an interrogation scene in a movie. ![]() But the not-hard / not-soft look, plus total control, in a small package is too much to resist for me. It is really my go-to light mod for close-in speedlight portraiture now. I'll give you one guess as to what I used for a key light. This time around: High-axis key light with just enough strobe on the background to separate it from black. At left is Brett, who was lit right where he sat in a classroom chair in an unfinished commercial building with a primed drywall background. Last in this series we looked at Riaz, lit entirely by flash against a darkish wooden wall. ![]()
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