17. Portrait Shoots with Multiple Off-Camera Flashes

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Having two, three, or more flashes allows you to ratchet up the creativity even more with your lighting. In this chapter, I use a couple of Speedlights to start adding little touches of light to enhance the image. The images in this chapter were all lit with two off-camera Speedlights, building on the setups in Chapter 16. The more lights you have, the more options open up.

Dancer

Matching the light to the subject for this portrait meant trying to create the largest, softest light possible. For the previous chapter’s photos of Jennifer, I used a large umbrella alone. For this round, I added ...

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