Video: Combining Flash with Candlelight
Wednesday 23 December 2020, 20:02 by Elja Trum | 4,958 views | 1 commentThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Candlelight creates atmospheric light for portrait photos. But flash is often better if you want to take really great photos. So what happens if you combine the two? Gavin Hoey shows you how in this video.
Gavin first sets his camera to the exposure needed for the background. So without flash. Only the candles provide light, leaving the model in darkness. He keeps using this exposure after adding the flash.
He places the flash very close to the model, so little of the flash reaches the background. This preserves the atmosphere created by the candles in the background.
Using an orange colour filter, he makes sure that the colour temperatures of both light sources, the candles and the flash, match.
Gavin also takes the photo again without the model. This gives him a photo with just the background. He can then easily remove the softbox, which was in the shot. Of course, you need to work with a tripod for this.
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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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1 comment
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Peter van Dinther
wrote on Tuesday 29 December 2020 at 14:24
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Interesting. Does anyone know which screen he uses when tethering his photos?
Translated from Dutch.
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