{"id":4094,"date":"2014-09-10T22:10:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T21:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2014-09-10T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T21:10:06","slug":"using-two-lights-home-studio-essentials-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/?p=4094","title":{"rendered":"Using two lights – Home Studio Essentials – Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many\u00a0ways you can use a single flash to take great portraits but sooner or later the limitations of a single flash will be reached. Adding a second flash can be a great way to open up new and creative photo opportunities.<\/p>\n

In this video I fire up a second light to act as a hair\u00a0light and separate the model from a\u00a0dark background. Then in the final shoot I add a few bubbles to create something a bit special.<\/p>\n

[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FcQg0cBncHs&list=UU8Pksdbj37CdE00kmE7Z1dw[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

More lights means more complexity but my advice is to treat\u00a0each light separately\u00a0<\/span>and meter accordingly. Turning them both on and trying to balance them at the same time sounds easier but trust me it’s not!<\/p>\n

\"Bubbles-Studio\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Gear used in this video (Links back to Adorama)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flashpoint StreakLight 360 Ws Creative Collection<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(Includes flash, battery, trigger, boom etc)<\/p>\n

Flashpoint Streaklight 180 WS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Westcott Apollo Orb Softbox<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Canon 5D Mark 2\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Canon 24-105L\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are many\u00a0ways you can use a single flash to take great portraits but sooner or later the limitations of a single flash will be reached. Adding a second flash can be a great way to open up new and creative photo opportunities. In this video I fire up a second light to act as … Continue reading Using two lights – Home Studio Essentials – Part 5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[87,76,45,70,23,145,36,34,37,24,144,3],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-adobe","tag-adorama","tag-camera","tag-canon","tag-featured","tag-lighting","tag-photography","tag-photoshop","tag-portrait","tag-spotlight","tag-studio","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gavtrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}