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Shooting a three flash portrait

Shooting a three flash portrait

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Shooting a three flash portrait

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As far as setup goes, I'm just thinking of this rig as a single light. I'm doing the things I would normally do if I was setting up the flash. I've got Krissy here on a stool, I've decided to work with an umbrella, I've got my light stand, I'm going to get it in the right place. And so I'm just thinking of this as one light source, but of course it's not, It's three different light sources, and I have to figure out how to get my camera to communicate with it. And I don't really do that any way other than how I would if I was using my flashes all spread around. What I've got here are two Canon 600EX-RTs and a Yongnuo YN-560. This an very inexpensive all-manual flash, and two Canon flashes that have built-in radio transmitters in them and I've got my radio controller here on my camera. So I'm going to have radio control to two of these flashes. The all-manual flash is being set to trigger by the optical flash of my two Canon flashes. I…

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