Workshop 6

Duke, Nuke Them 2

▸ How to produce lots of light using small flashes

▸ Using five flashes simultaneously

▸ Shooting with a wide aperture in the midday sun with an ND filter

The previous workshop showed how to simultaneously use five flashes, but you may want less depth of field and more bokeh. The setup demands a small aperture that retains sharpness throughout the frame. Using an ND filter is one way to bring wider apertures and therefore less depth of field into play in a daytime shoot.

Neutral Density Filters

ND filters reduce the strength of the incident light and help make it possible to use wide apertures at speeds greater than the camera’s sync speed. ND filters are labeled as shown in the accompanying table

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