Shot Break Down #2

#2 - The First Dance Embrace

If you can just imagine using this BTS image here, the set up involves the two speedlites on the corner of the dancefloor pointing in towards the centre of the dancefloor both with honeycomb modifiers on them. Links below on these, and I’m planning on shooting towards the wall behind the band, you can see the lights on the wall make up a huge part of the final image.

BTS - The room has lots of ambient Light

So as with all off camera flash images you need to follow that procedure of firstly setting your ambient exposure for the room in manual then turn on your flash trigger and set the powers on the flash. If you want more help with off camera flash I’ve made another much more in depth video on the procedure and how to do it step by step, but you can see my flash locations here, the camera settings I used are Shutter 160th/sec F2.8 and ISO400. The flashes were set to maximum zoom and as I mentioned they have the magnetic honeycomb grids on. With these magnetic honeycomb modifiers you can control the spread of the light much more effectively so there’s much less spill. The Camera is a Canon 5D Mark 3 and the lens is a 16-35 f2.8 Mark 3. The flashes are the Yongnuo 560IV triggered by their trigger. I’ll leave links below.

I’ve mentioned before that after time and practice you get much better at knowing what settings to set your camera to and powers to set your flashes on before taking any test shots and this is a good example, I’ve set up my flashes, set my camera to manual and made this test shot and it’s almost exactly where I want it. The balance between the lights on the wall and the flashes are perfect but it’s just a tiny bit too dark so I up my iso to 400 and straight away, this was the first image I made of their first dance and obviously there were loads more this is one I’m gonna talk about. Obviously it needs a little processing and let’s get into that now…