a (fashion) shooter » strobe light photography http://www.afashionshooter.com a photography blog Sat, 21 May 2011 18:42:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 one light wonders – using a single light source in the studio http://www.afashionshooter.com/2008/12/16/one-light-wonders-using-a-single-light-source-in-the-studio/ http://www.afashionshooter.com/2008/12/16/one-light-wonders-using-a-single-light-source-in-the-studio/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:50:08 +0000 AFS http://www.afashionshooter.com/?p=94 While admiring photographers who can handle many lights very well, like Joshua Jordan, I usually like to keep things on my sets as simple as possible. Why? Because I find that I feel freer to work with the talent when I am not thinking too much about equipment. Also when the lighting is more simple, the models can move around more freely without messing the whole thing up ;-)
Keeping it simple often that means using only daylight, or just one studio strobe – and maybe mix the one studio light with daylight. And often it means using a reflector or two. While it might sound limiting, it really isn’t. And if you are just starting to learn how to light things, or just like to travel light, it’s a good idea to explore all that can be done with one light source.
Using only the sun (daylight) is a good way to start. Everyone has taken photos using daylight, and everyone has seen some incredible images made using just the sun. The below gallery is all shot indoors with just daylight. Sometimes there was just one window, and in some cases there were multiple windows.
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Seeing as you can do all these things with daylight inside, it should follow that one artificial light source in the studio could be just as be fruitful, no? Well, it can be. Soon I will post a few shots using single-source strobe lights (usually with large softboxes for diffusion.) I’ll do my best to describe exactly how I used them.
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