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Hey photography friend! How is it going?

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I am Michael Zelbel. I'm still here in Beijng.

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Today is my last day. Tomorrow I will be flying back to Germany,

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but today I still have one spontaneous shooting with a new model, Amelia,

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she just signed up for the model forum three days ago and

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I thought she got a wonderful face for a couple of portraits

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and that's what we are going to shoot today: some crazy portraits.

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It will be very interesting so keep on watching.

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This lighting setup will be all about flexibility.

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I didn't really plan the shooting, but I know that I just want to do some simple portrait.

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But there are so many variations. I dont know the model.

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I dont know whether face is better from this side or that side,

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which means: Should have my main light coming from the right or from the left?

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I don't know whether it's better to have her long black beautiful hair open

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and probably place it in front of a black background or whether we should tie it up

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and place her in front of a white background, we will try out and learn.

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For that I need a really, really flexible setup.

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And this is what I am going to do:

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I will use two speedlights as my main light sources.

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This is speed light A, and I will have the model sitting over here,

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and I will have the speedlight a bit higher coming from this side. Like this.

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Just above the table at a 45 degrees angle. That's speedlight A.

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The same on the other side with speed light B.

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The good thing with those speedlights is,

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that I can control them from the camera or from the on-camera flash.

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I can control which one of those is my main light.

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I just have to dial one control and say the ratio is now 2:1,

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so two times the amount of light from here and one time the amount from the left.

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When I tell her to turn her nose to this side, then I just have to dial

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two time the amount of light from here and one time the amount of filling light from over there,

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In just on second I can change the position of my main light.

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I will shoot from over there to over here.

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I need to fill in from below, and for that I just put some white towel ontop of the table.

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This will reflect a decent amount of light.

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Voilà! Beauty light from all sides and nothing can go wrong.

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ETTL - Even I cannot mess it up!

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Good, now the background! Over here I have got windows.

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I can let down the curtains and then it's a bright background, creamy white.

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It's a really bright one, which would need some more light to appear pure white.

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Or I want to have it black. Black is very simple.

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I've got my big reflector.

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I just put it over here, lean it against a chair,

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and when I shout from over there, then now I have got a black background.

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Since she has got black hair and probably I will have her wearing a black hat,

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I will need some head light and for that I will use another little speed light.

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I will hang it under the ceiling and zoom it to 105mm,

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so it's emitting a very directed beam of light.

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I will hang it this way around, right over here so that it will just hit her head over here.

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In case I want to have the bright background,

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I just have to remove this reflector, turn this speedlight around,

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pull out the built in diffuser so that it zooms out to 14 mm.

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Then it's emitting a very broad cone of light

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to the whole window wall over there.

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When I now shoot her against the light,

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then this will be brightened by this speedlight.

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It's set to group C, so I can control it from the camera.

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To brighten up the wall I would probably dial to plus +1, overexpose the wall by one f-stop.

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To have just a bit of delineation in the hair I would set it to -3,

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to have just a little it of light over here.

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It's just a matter of two seconds to change the setup.

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Okay, now we can try out lots of things within a few minutes. Let's do so.

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There you have it.

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Just a little portrait shooting, but with quite some variation.

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The speedlights, especially the ETTL element of the speedlights,

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was quite helpful. It makes it a whole lot faster.

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So I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you have fun with your shoots!

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I hope to see you soon!

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Until then, I wish you good light!

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Bye bye