Understanding the three flash setup

…I'm getting ready for a portrait shoot and I have three strobes with me here.…If you've watched my Foundations of Photography Flash course you know…that with multiple flashes I can create really nice complex lighting situations.…I can have a keylight, and a fill light, and back light.…But there's something else that I can do with multiple flashes which…is to gang them up to get me a couple of other things.…And I do all that with something like this.…This is a three-way flash bracket.…These are cold shoes.…And by cold, I mean they don't have any electronics in them, they're not going…to communicate anything, and with these, I can…build this cool little three way flash pod.…

So what that gives me is a big increase in light.…That can be really handy in a situation…where I need to overpower some bright light.…For example, maybe I'm shooting outside, and I want to use the sun…as a backlight, which means I need a whole lot of fill light.…I might be trying to shoot that with one…flash and finding I don't have enough fill light.…