Your awesome outdoor portraits are living from the extra little pop that you give your subject by directing a touch of extra light to them. This is a great use case for the High Speed Sync (HSS) feature, which most current speedlights and cameras have. I use it all the time. In todays video I show you an edge case in which I actually did not plan on using high-speed sync, but then it turned out to be necessary and it really saved my day. Try it out with your own speedlight if it supports High Speed Sync.
Just in time for the holidays! Gary Fong, a longtime professional photographer, teaches how to take photographs in front of the family Christmas tree with the digital SLR. The mean reason that the photos come out so dark is because you are shooting in a very low light situation indoors. Without a tripod, you have blur. But even with a tripod, your people might move and become blurred
Gary Fong demonstrates in detail how to light portraiture with two speedlights, one hairlight and one main light. Included in this discussion are - how to trigger off-camera flash, how to mix available light with flash, and how to create dramatic portraiture in unappealing locations, easily.
