Basic Studio Lighting Setup – Zumba

Model Shoot
21 Dec

Hi, this time I want to introduce you with Tomasz Nowak (photography site and
facebook page), Tomasz shoots weddings and children in Poland, but as I found
out is a very talented strobist photographer. I first met this simple studio setup
on strobox (a source for many ideas for any level photographers). Tomasz uses
here a basic two light setup, the main light is made of two entry level YN460II
strobist style flashes in a softbox front left side of the model (in the next post
youʼll see how he fixed them in) and another YN460II as fill hair light through a
snoot from the back opposite modelʼs side .

So lets dig in and see how its done!!!

Here is a simple sketch (I must say the he is also talented with sketching those)

This lighting setup is pretty easy to do:

All the shots were shot with Nikon D700 and 85/1.8@f2.8, 1/200 and ISO
400.
Softbox with 2 YN460II at 1/8th Power rather than having one Yn460II at
1/4th Power (so getting fast recycle times).
Hair light YN460II with snoot from behind to get some good separation
from the background.

Very easy!

Here are some general tips from Tomasz:

some of the shots were done while the models were in motion, so i wanted
to shoot couple of frames one after another. One speedlight flash set to ¼
power recycles rather slowly but two of them, both set to power recycle
much faster. and I was able to shoot more frames at a time.
a standard studio flash wouldnʼt be helpful in this situation. Most of them
recycle only to level of the required amount of power, so youʼre not able to
shoot a series of images because of recycle time.
We have different situation when using speedlights – they always recycle to
full power – that means if you have a flash set to power you can
theoretically shoot 8 frames before itʼs empty.

Here are some more images taken in that set, weʼll be happy if you post your
thoughts here .

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