16. Portrait Shoots with One Off-Camera Flash
The creative possibilities blossom when you move your flash off the camera. Not only can you change the direction of the light relative to the camera, you can also change the composition of your image without affecting the lighting. To demonstrate, this chapter revisits the subjects from Chapter 15, but this time I used a single off-camera flash in Remote mode for the portraits. Although the techniques that follow use only a single flash as lighting, depending on which camera and Speedlight you are using, you might actually need two flash units, one as the light source and the other as the controller ...
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