Respect to you all....

[Brian L Scott]

I have to say I learned a lot of a recent shoot at my church on Saturday. (Pics of Santa)

It was the first indoor shoot using 3 flashes - umbrella 580ex(left), 580ex on camera, and a 550 with a older light sphere(right rear). All set for E-TTL.

I figured with 3 flashes it would be easy to control the light and the shadows, and boy was I wrong!!! I tip my hats to all of you!! It was extremely hard to get the correct balance of the flashes (getting rid of the shadows). I kept moving things around trying different angles, raising up the umbrella, moving further way, closer. It was a small room where I was not able to do a 45 / 45 for the two - I ended up scrapping the light sphere and bouncing off of the side wall.

Thanks for all of your post in the past to ease in my learning experience....

B L Scott

Spokane, Washington, USA

http://brianlscottphotography.com

 

[Daniel Payne]

I do a few Santa shoots each year however my lighting equipment choice is quite different:

One monolight shot into a silver umbrella, camera on manual (1/30 second, f/5.6, ISO 100):



--
Daniel Payne
http://www.danieljpayne.com/

 

[Bill Wallace]

Do you set your light straight away and shoot from where your light placement is with one light?

Bill

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Bill Wallace
dpreview & pbase supporter
http://www.pbase.com/papa51

 

[Daniel Payne]

For this type of event photography I prefer simplicity, so I setup one softbox (4'x3') high above the camera.
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Daniel Payne
http://www.danieljpayne.com/

 

[Onetrack97]

For this type of event photography I prefer simplicity, so I setup
one softbox (4'x3') high above the camera.
--
Daniel Payne
http://www.danieljpayne.com/

Same here. I might throw in a hair light or background light depending upon what there is to work with but one light works well.
--
Scott

 

[zdownloads]

I recently did some santa and family photos at my church as well. I ended up using a 4' Octabox as main camera left, 3' Octabox as fill high over camera, 3' Octabox as hairlight (turned way down) and a gelled background light. Here's what I came up with: