Friday, January 11, 2013

Using Flash To Fake A Sunset


This is a brief excerpt from F-Stoppers




Every morning I wake up and walk out to my living room. I sit down on the couch and bask in the sunlight coming through my sliding glass doors. I love how the light cutting through the vertical blinds creates a pattern of lines going across my living room. I have often thought how cool it would be to shoot a photo with the light like that, but at sunset when the light is real golden. The only problem? I can’t shoot a sunset like that because my door opens on the eastern side of the house…


So I decided I wanted to fake the funk and use flashes to emulate a sunset coming through the blinds. I also didn’t just want to shoot an image of my fireplace, so I had a lovely model (my girlfriend Jasmine) sit in for the shot. I started by placing an SB900 with two gels on it, one yellow, and one orange. I covered the left half of the flash with yellow and the right with orange. This gave a nice mix of light in my opinion as opposed to just shooting through orange or yellow. I angled the flash in …



By: Anthony Tripoli


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