home :: all lessons :: portrait indoor :: How To Use Umbrellas; Getting Started
 

  

Whether you use one light or four, shooting with strobes enables you to get professional-level results in whatever style you are going for. The adjustable power of monobloc strobes allows precise control over your light output for creating ratios and controlling foreground and background exposures.

This lesson explores the use of monobloc strobes with umbrellas in a studio setting.

(Most images can be clicked for an enlarged view.)

Topics Covered:

  • How to properly set up an umbrella with a strobe
  • Using an umbrella as a main light
  • Using a main light and a reflector fill
  • Using two umbrellas for main and fill
  • Using umbrellas to light a background

Equipment Used:


  
 

Copyright © 1995- Photoflex, Inc.