From the course: Lighting with Flash: Capturing a Dancer in Motion

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Reviewing the setup

Reviewing the setup

Okay, blow-away white, which is what I think of white seamless because the detail to be completely gone--really useful thing, especially if you're shooting pictures that are going to be used in a lot of spaces. What this does is create a background against which we can basically cut out the picture of a floating dancer, and she can put that on a business card, she can put it on a webpage, she can put it on a poster, in any context and float that in any way that she needs to go. Anther thing that it takes away is it takes away a frame of reference. It takes away the horizon. So she can jump up 2 or 3 feet in the air, and I can literally be shooting from down on my knees and get the appearance that she's just soaring. So hopefully we can save her muscles a little bit throughout the course to the afternoon by altering that. I did a shot of a helicopter a couple of years ago where I was on the ground, the helicopter was in the air, and it's coming at me like this. So the fact that we…

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