22 Inch Beauty Dish and 640WS Einstein – Both From Paul C. Buff

Basic Overview Below Of How This Was Shot:

…I Was Standing On Step Stool For Angle
…2 Brolly Boxes – One Left – One Right – For Side Lighting
…2 Inexpensive 180WS Strobes For The 2 Brolly Boxes
…70-200mm Canon f/2.8 Set F/5.6
…Canon 5D Mark III – 100 ISO
…Pocket Wizards To Trigger Strobes
…Paul C. Buff 640WS Einstein Strobe
…Kupos C -Stand With Boom Arm
…22 Inch Beauty Dish With Soft Cover
…53 Inch Savage Super White Background Made Slightly Gray In Post
…Subject Was About 4 feet From Background

Do the best you can with the equipment that you own or have access to. A prime lens will likel yield better results than a kit lens. But other than that, most of the rest of this can be shot with alternative options to what I used above. No, you don’t have to shoot it with a FULL Frame Pro Body. No, you don’t have to have an Einstein Strobe.  etc. etc.

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The model was in a shaded walkway area between two office condo buildings.  I wanted the bright light that you see behind her to help make the image pop.  The daylight reading was f/5.6 which I adjusted the camera via ISO and Shutter Speed to get.  Although I was on manual, you could set your camera for aperture priority at f/5.6 or on manual at f/5.6 and get the meter to even out based on the f/stop by adjusting your shutter speed and potentially ISO if needed.  I purposely slightly over exposed the image, so my meter was NOT exactly even at f/5.6.

I used a C-stand with a boom arm mounted with an Einstein strobe and a 22 inch beauty dish.  I used two sand bags on the C-stand to keep it from tipping over.  I adjusted the strobe manually instead of using a light meter.  With the adjustment on the strobe, I shot a few images until the light looked like it was balanced.  If I had of used a light meter, I could have adjusted it to f/5.6 to match it with the daylight.

***Equipment List…
Canon 5D Mark III
Canon 70-200mm F2.8
Pocket Wizard
Paul C. Buff 640 WS Einstein (Strobe)
Paul C. Buff 22 Inch Beauty Dish (White)
Paul C. Buff Vagabond Mini (Outside Power)
C-Stand with Boom Arm and Sandbag
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***As for equipment, depending on where you are with your photography, you may not have most of the items listed and you may not be shooting with professional gear. That’s OK! You have to start where you are and use what you have. If you have a camera, a lens and a flash, you can still try to balance daylight and strobe together to create a similar shot.

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