Aditya Rakhman wrote in post #10823466
your setup is a lot like my usual setup, it's just that I use an octagonal softbox instead, so well done! isn't one-light great?
Yeah, it's pretty cool what you can do with one big (relatively speaking) well placed light.
Shooting outdoor portraits in kinda new for me. The difference seems to be that it is more challenging to balance the ambient with the flash. In the "studio", ambient is much less powerful, so it's easy to kill it completely or control it.
The other factor is that outdoors, it is sometimes impossible to artificially light the background. So, if you want to include background elements, you need to expose for it. In my case, I had to raise my ISO to 400 to shoot this. I generally just leave my ISO on 100 for best quality, but that wasn't an option since I wanted to expose for the trees the buildings in the background.
The environment is also more challenging when shooting outside on location as well. I had some freak stalking me as my group moved around the Gardens taking photos. This guy looked crazy, was wearing a skirt, had long hair, and had this weird smile that NEVER changed. Very uncomfortable. Needless to say, I kept my gear bags close to me.
Also, the weather was VERY hot (mid 90's and humid), so everyone was sweating. I had to exercise some post processing muscle to get rid of the shiny sweat on his face. If anyone is interested, I can post the before photo to show what it was like prior to any retouching. I've learned that retouching can take a good photo and make it great. I think my meager post skills, which have improved vastly over the past year, made a gigantic difference in this photo.
