November 2017
Beginner to intermediate
208 pages
5h 11m
English

If you’re gelling your background flash with a color (see page 116), of course you want a nice, vivid color on your background. To make sure your background color stays nice and vivid, you need to make certain that the light from your front flash (the one lighting your subject) doesn’t spill onto your background and wash out the vivid color back there, or the whole background will look kinda “blah.” All you have to do is make sure your main flash is far enough away from the background, so the light doesn’t reach back there. Generally, I put my subject 8 to10 feet from the background, so that would put my main ...
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