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Shooting Great Portraits with Portable Strobes / Toddler portrait

At Web Photo School, we get a lot of people asking about how best to set up and shoot a simple portrait using a strobe light and a digital camera.

Many people think that strobe lighting is confusing and hard to operate, but in fact, once you know your way around the controls, it can be very easy, particularly if you're shooting digitally and can review your exposure levels as you shoot them.

This lesson demonstrates how to configure your camera and lighting gear so that you can shoot professional-quality portraits quickly and easily.

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

Topics Covered:

  • The shortcomings of built-in flash lighting
  • Mounting a flash bracket and flash to your camera
  • Attaching a softbox to your camera bracket
  • Comparisons of different types of lighting set-ups

Equipment Used:

Camera/Media


  
 

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