Flash/Ambient Sunset Portraits .. good read !!

[bigdazzler]

Heres a very good post from Dave Hobby at strobist, on balancing flash and twilight/sunset ambient when shooting portraits.

Very good read, and simply explained, for anyone wanting to try this out for the first time.

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/06/free-custom-backdrops-delivered-daily.html

[dche5390]

Easy read? My brain turned to mush!

[Lani]

Thanks Darren, definitely a good read! :th3:

[RamblinR]

Thanks for the link, much appreciated.

[bigbaz]

A bit out of my league at the moment, i might read that in 6 months

[Adrian Fischer]

It is a good read. And every time I visit that site I learn something or something I thought I knew becomes a little clearer.

[bigdazzler]

A little patronising I thought, but often a good idea to go over the basics, surprising what you forget over time, or if you haven't shot that style for a while.

Im sorry .. how so ??

[bigdazzler]

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As for Dave Hobbys blog not being "direct" or "factual", I guess we'll just need to agree to disagree on that mate ;) I guess theres a reason he made Time Magazines list of popular blogs of 2010.

[MarkChap]

Great read Darren, thanks

Has actually inspired me for next week end I think, was going to spend some time just experimenting, might add this at the end of the day, I know a great spot.

As for David Hobby being condescending ?? - What tha ?

[bigdazzler]

Great read Darren, thanks

Has actually inspired me for next week end I think, was going to spend some time just experimenting, might add this at the end of the day, I know a great spot.

As for David Hobby being condescending ?? - What tha ?

Yea its a good site mate ... very useful for lots of things and different ways to use your small flashes.

ummm .. yea that bit had me a touch confused as well. Ah well .. horses for courses as they say :D

[maccaroneski]

This is the only blog that I follow religiously. As to the condescending bit, I think that he just has a flair for writing about lighting, but his attempts at humour are pretty lame. I can *almost* see how that can come across as condescending, but I think that it's just a reasonably poor style.

Cannot fault him whatsoever for content though - just brilliant.

[bigdazzler]

This is the only blog that I follow religiously. As to the condescending bit, I think that he just has a flair for writing about lighting, but his attempts at humour are pretty lame. I can *almost* see how that can come across as condescending, but I think that it's just a reasonably poor style.

Cannot fault him whatsoever for content though - just brilliant.

I think that if someone was to you read a one-off post you could take him the wrong way .. but as you delve into it more you quickly realise that, as you say, thats just his style. I think hes just a lighting geek to be honest and it comes across in his text :D

100% agree .. he knows his stuff thats for sure.

[maccaroneski]

I think hes just a lighting geek to be honest and it comes across in his text :D



Watch his DVD and you won't just *think* that he's a lighting geek, you'll know :)

[bigdazzler]

Watch his DVD and you won't just *think* that he's a lighting geek, you'll know :)

Seen it ... Not a bad thing though. Im a little bit of one too I reckon :lol:

[Keza]

Strobist is a great site learn something every time I visit it or refreshes the memory

[MATT]

Thanks for the link. I have been missing in action and this has rekindle a little inspiration

MATT