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Forum: Photographic Technique
05-01-2018, 01:27 PM
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That should work very well.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
04-30-2018, 08:47 PM
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It may be a matter of opinion, but the umbrella or softbox alone will diffuse it to a useable extent. I have never applied an extra diffuser on my flashes when using them with modifiers, and hot spots were not a problem for me. The flash aperture itself can be set to a wide aperture when it is in Manual mode to allow a spread of the light. Placing extra diffusers on the flash will in my opinion reduce the original light source, causing needless loss of power.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
04-30-2018, 07:56 PM
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Good idea. You could set up a couple of chairs and place objects or a couple of people on them and just test with your light positioning and power.
I am not sure if you saw it in my last post, but if you want another extra pack of AA batteries, the dollar stores have generous deals sometimes, like an 8 pack for a dollar.
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I wanted to mention also, if you are using soft boxes or umbrellas, I would recommend using the bare flash inside them to make the most of the light you have.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
04-30-2018, 07:42 PM
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I think you may be surprised at what 1/4 power can do. I have used 1/8 and 1/4 power combinations for portrait setups with 2 or three umbrellas with success. 1/2 power may be valuable also depending on your settings for your subject(s), but if I were you I would try to conserve using 1/4 and/or 1/8 when possible.
If you want to get an extra pack of batteries, the dollar stores usually sell 8 packs of the AA type for a dollar.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
04-29-2018, 01:40 PM
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The 24-70 would cover a lot of instances, and give you a short depth of field advantage if you are looking for blurred background. If you do not plan on that, then the 28-105 should do well. Then if you plan on further distanced subjects than the 28-105 can handle, the 70-200 may come in handy.
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Forum: Photographic Technique
04-29-2018, 12:46 PM
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The 47 inch is quite large. You may want to test using one flash for the output. Most likely you will want to stick with one flash in each softbox, because being able to have 3 different sources to position for your lighting is going to be valuable/versatile. It would be nice if you could use 1/8 or 1/4 power for each light depending on what you are lighting, to conserve power. I would say that something like a 30 inch softbox may be more appropriate for one flash, but like I said, using multiple lights and testing will show you what you can do.
Umbrellas work very well, so you will have nice light from a single flash unit in that type of modifier also.
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The 28- 105 would most likely cover most scenarios, and if you expect a very wide situation, the 15-30 may help. The 70-200 is nice to have, but you may not want to carry too much., unless you expect to have distanced subjects.
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