First Press of the Shutter: Single light portrait, Canon 5D2 and Canpn Speedlite 430EX

Sunday 14 February 2016

Single light portrait, Canon 5D2 and Canpn Speedlite 430EX

Topsy wanted to try out a new make up look based on the film Burlesque.

I took the opportunity to try a single light setup to record the result.

I used a single silver reflective umbrella, with a diffuser over the open end, wi the Canon 430EX firing into the brolly so it bounced off the inside on the subject, and was diffused by the white diffuser over the end. Its a set up that is supposed to giver similar results to a beauty dish.

I used the flash in ETTL mode with the 5D2 and a Canon ST2 remote flash trigger. Lenses used were a Canon USM 100mm f2 macro and Canon SM 85mm f1.8.

I processed images in Lr, Ps, Photos with plug-ins and the MacPhun CK suite as stand-alone Apps.