From the course: Lighting with Flash: On Location from Close Up to Portrait

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The initial lighting setup and exposure goals

The initial lighting setup and exposure goals

David: All right. So, we're going to be shooting Alban using this doorway as a backdrop for a portrait. It's got a lot of really nice texture to it, both in the door itself, but also, there's some depth inside. And I want to see if you can see this but but I've taken a Stoffen and put it on an SB-800, which I've got slaved. And I blacked out the front of the Stoffen, so, so, if I've got this set up right, oh no, I've gotta reset it. One moment please, there we go. And mode, manual. So, what I'm going to do is light up this doorway, and I'm killing a lot of the light that will be going straight on the doorway itself. And leaving more of it to go around the edges. So, it made it like, it sort of comes out like this, like a, like a saucer, and not so much forward. If I had this off, you see how much brighter the door would be right there. And even if I took this tape off of this Stoffen, it's, it's not technically a Stoffen, it's a little diffuser that comes with the camera. You could…

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