Use hot shoe flash to shoot photos with full sense of three-dimension

Many friends have a shadow of a few hot shoe flash or in low light conditions such as indoors , or in the case of too much light than fill light for the subject . In fact, bright and soft light environment, you can use the hot shoe flash , and the purpose of use is the manufacture of large light ratio , creating three-dimensional lighting effects by pro hdr software.

Here I'll tell you about this shooting method .

Before using this method , we need to prepare a hot shoe flash can lead flashing from the machine equipment, wireless flash control or off-camera shoe cable.

I selected a small scene - blooming flowers , as the shooting target , set the camera to M-file , accurate metering, setting the aperture, shutter values. Next, determine the position of the flash , the flash is best placed on the side of the subject , because the better side light can create three-dimensional effect . According shoe lights flash index = aperture value × distance ( the distance between the flash and the subject ) , set the flash power , the best power setting slightly higher than the calculated value a little bit.

Select a suitable composition, and take a see how effective it ?

Use hot shoe flash photography squid

If you feel that there is nothing special , so we did not use this to compare the following flash effect.

Not using flash photography squid

As can be seen from the above two photographs , taken with a flash hot shoe use three-dimensional flowers are very obvious, while the background is pressure dark subject more prominent. Not using flash photography squid, the overall picture relatively flat, three-dimensional sense was not strong enough . If you like this kind of stereoscopic pictures , may wish to try it !