Natural VS Strobed Light - What style do you prefer?
Off-Camera-Flash can be used to illuminate your subject in difficult lighting conditions, but by killing even more ambient light, you can get dramatic effects.
You may remember I wrote an article demonstrating the effect of adding a strobe to light a scene for a portrait. The strobe was, in that case, used to illuminate the subject in a reasonably natural way, but by increasing your shutter speed, you can have full creative control over your ambient light, and create very different looks.
Essentially, when you are using off-camera-flash, you are creating a "double exposure" of sorts. Typically, the ambient light is exposing your scene and subject, while your strobe is also lighting your subject. By using a faster shutter speed, you can darken the scene, contrasting your model against the environment and creating a more stylistic look.
YouTuber Manuel "Mani" Ortiz demonstrates this brilliantly in this video using Sony and Godox gear.
What look do you prefer? Natural? Or Strobed? (Personally, I gravitate towards something in between!)
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I definately prefer Strobed, because it adds own effect on the photo due to illuminating action . And this effect add more natural beauty to the photo
Cheers. I do both, and everything in between. I love the really strobed, stylish look, but I think it lends itself best to more extreme subjects, be it extreme beauty, action, strange, etc..
Thanks for this article @condra. I am just doing photography for a hobby. And I never used strobed light before. But although the first photo used strobed light, it looks quite natural to me.
So, I think, in darker place, you have no choice but to use strobe light. In other hand, natural light also give great result when used properly.
Natural light is the best it create magic :)
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