Who says you need a big studio to shoot high-speed special effects?
For any photographer interested in portrait photography, using off-camera flash and flash offers a limitless world of creativity. The portability of the flash allows you to strategically place and focus the lights, and the use of modifiers allows for unique visual effects to be created.
In this video from portrait and wedding photographer Jiggie Alejandrino, he reviews and analyzes a shoot he did with his wife in 2013, in which he used flash, colored gels and a flash. and baby powder to create dynamic portraits of her dancing. By setting up his shooting space in their driveway at night, the heavy use of speedlights while shooting at high speed created a black background without the need to set one. reality. Using a relatively larger outdoor space allows the light to focus to remove any darker details in the background and, as a bonus, saves studio equipment from clutter. Using color gel, which will later create splashes of vibrant color in the frame, and lots of baby powder to create texture and depth, this quick project can lead to such amazing results.
