You had a lot of good questions after the Margo Seibert shoot last week, even to the point of telling me I was breaking a Scott Kelby Rule. (For the record, I lurve breaking Scott Kelby rules.)
(And who is he to say you shouldn't shoot a portrait with a 50mm, anyway?)
Besides — and believe it or not — that lens selection was totally driven by the light. No joke. That, and more of your Q's answered, below.
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Strobist
Learning to light with flashes can be liberating or it can be a straightjacket. It can open up countless new doors — or it can restrict you to a small, equipment-based bag of tricks.
The key is to not let your new lighting skills displace your other approaches. And even more important, to learn to let your vision cross-pollinate between seeing great ambient and creating great light from scratch.
Case in point is this shoot with actress Margo Seibert, for which I packed all of my strobes but only brought out a single LP180 — and then only after our ambient had deserted us.
Today we'll be tweaking the sun until it's gone. And only then swapping to flash.
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