ABSTRACT
Figure 25.2 Working with light in the studio, you can make pictures from simple oddments.
way to position a lamp high up to backlight a figure
or illuminate the background (see Figure 25.4).
As an alternative, many top-of-camera flash
units can now also be used off the camera. Two
such flash guns, using either sync cords or wireless
links, can be employed instead of the photographic
lamps for most studio work. They have the
advantage of being balanced for daylight film (or
white balance setting) and the exposure of many
models can be automatically calculated via special
flash readings in the camera. The downside is that
most of these portable, on-camera models do not
contain any modeling lamps and so it is very
difficult to predict the positioning and quality of the
light that they are emitting. Digital shooters have an advantage in this respect, being able to
shoot and assess the resultant lighting via the LCD screen on the back of the camera. Changes
can then be made to the lighting set-up before reshooting again.
