Flash photography tip: Projecting a pattern onto your model
Saturday 30 November 2024, 15:15 by Elja Trum | 2,279 views | 0 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
You can create a striking photo by projecting a pattern onto your model. With flash, you can do this by placing something with a pattern between your flash and your model.
To make the pattern clear, you need to use hard light, for example with a bare flash, a grid or a snoot attached. You can also create a hard shadow from the pattern by placing the pattern itself close to your model and your flash a little further away.
Here I used the lace from a shirt to create the pattern. Move your model, or the light and pattern, although that is often more difficult, to get the pattern in the right place on your model. With a studio flash, you can use the modelling light for this. With a speedlight, you have to try a bit more.
About the author
Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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