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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Amsterdam Workshop, Flash bouncing Demo

Todays workshop we had a cool dark sky in the background, This is cool because I wanted to overpower the ambient light at 3:30pm in the afternoon, in broad daylight(this is best when its cloudy), I was able to use my 580 exII and bounce into a 4x6 reflector, then I had another sunbounce mini (silver 3x4') bouncing the light from the 1st flash back to fill the shadows. I wanted to have my bride walking so the wind would be blowing through her hair and I was able to do that with my 2 assistants walking along with us as a unit, all at the same speed. Setting were pretty simple:

85mm, 50 iso, 1/200th, @ f /4.5


In this second shot I wanted dramatic lighting coming in from each side and I wanted even more light to make the sky darker, the only way to do that was to have more flash power, two flashes worked perfect, same sunbounces on each side as before, yet my settings were pretty much the same with exception to the f-stop:

85mm, 50 iso, 1/200th, @ f / 7.1.

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6 Comments:

Anonymous Fabrício Brisola said...

One day I will have the honor to go in your workshop! Great job!

11/19/2009 7:34 AM  
Blogger Mike Larson said...

You totally should! Maybe we can do something in Brazil! We can talk to Evandro and get a group together.

11/19/2009 7:37 AM  
Anonymous Fabrício Brisola said...

Better if it could be around here! I live in the same city as Evandro Rocha and I can say he is making a great work too! I'll keep aware for your new tweets hoping that someday you'll come to Brazil!
PS: I'm not very good at english so I still need some help to write. hahaha xD

11/19/2009 11:00 AM  
Anonymous Mireille Aikman said...

Mike,

I was at the workshop in Amsterdam and had an amazing time. A day well spent! Loved the outdoor shoot and compared with the shots that I made, I have to say the sun-bounce reflectors really make a difference. My portfolio is not that extensive but hope to be able to show you some of it sometime.

One question any change that I can purchase your DVD online? I didn't have the change to buy on Tuesday. Please let me know how I can purchase that would be great.

Regards,
Mireille

11/19/2009 1:11 PM  
Blogger Mike Larson said...

Mireille, thanks for the email! If your interested in the DVD, email me @ seminars@mikelarson.com and I'll get back to you with the info! Thanks for the kind word and I'm glad that were able to come.

11/19/2009 1:36 PM  
Blogger blog da vicky said...

If you come to Brazil I will be very happy to participate. I'm your fan

11/20/2009 7:41 AM  

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