Experimenting with my speedlights. Is this 'strobism' I have fallen victim to? Girl is my niece. Excuse the horrible photoshoping of the blurry background, a quick edit this one. I just wanted to experiment. Felt that it made it look all dream-like. Heh.
Okay, I've always been a fan of ambient, natural light. Never really liked flashes or any other artificial light. Most probably because I don't know how to use 'em? Am learning. It's so hard when I'm just so technically challenged.
I still prefer natural light, but with that extra lighting, you can get really creative and work with limitless conditions, rather than having to wait for the natural light to appear, mainly the reason why I've always prefered shooting during the day.
So anyhow, I've came across the term 'strobist' various times, but usually didn't really bother to look up on it, till tonight. From what I understand strobist is a photographer that uses off camera flashes? Well something like that. So does this shot above fall into that category?
I took this shot in the dark. My 580ex II mounted on the camera, and my 480ex behind my niece. Then I edited it so that the atmosphere surrounding her looks darker, and slightly dream like. Thus the fake bokeh. Horrible editing I know. Was just fooling around.
Hmm, so what say you? I think I would like to experiment more on this kind of lighting. Shooting in complete darkness. I like the 'cinematic' effect it creates.
If you are familiar with this technique, any criticism, opinions, tips, or links to this 'strobist' technique would be appreciated. Or, any other comments would be fine too. Thanks!
Much Love, Sue Anna Joe
7 comments:
super duper nice picture kak anna! u're gifted in photography~ (:
Thanks Qila. That's very nice of you to say, but I still feel that I'm really lacking knowledge on the technical side of photography. So many terms and techniques I've yet to know and explore.
The term strobist was essentially coined by the photo-journalist (and now full-time blogger/workshop teacher) David Hobby. He runs www.strobist.com
If you browse his blog... particularly the early entries you actually quite a bit of really good introductory information on what the whole deal is... and of course the further you read, the more information you get, and better techniques you can pick up.
Lighting 101 is a good place to start, just for reading... http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101.html
and then of course progress to 102, or complete the assignments he gives.
If I remember correctly someone turned 101 102 into PDF files that you can download for easier reading.
There's also a flickr group called shmobist. We use ghetto lighting techniques :p e.g. candles, ikea lights and whatnot.
...i luve this pic...i am not a photographer though...but all of your artistic touches and ideas on all of your pictures really inspiring...
ravin:
Hey thanks! A number of people have mentioned that strobist.com site. Definitely a sure visit! Thank you for sharing.
IntanCHLY:
Okay, hahahahaha. That's just adorable 'shmobist'. Gotta check that one out!! Thanks!
peah @ peps:
Aww, thank you. Glad to be of inspiration. ^_^
Sue Anna Joe : i love all ur stuff. they're all awesome.
Ravin & IntanCHLY : thx for the info shared.
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