Strobist Lighting 102 Position | Distance

Photographed for the Strobist Lighting 102: Unit 1.2 - Position | Distance.

This exercise demonstrates light fall-off on the background based on the ratio of strobe-to-subject distance vs strobe-to-background distance. Undiffused direct light from 580EX, placed increasingly closer to ball (i.e. bright leftmost image has strobe furthest from ball). Top row has light fired from lightstand at 45 degrees above and to the right of the ball, bottom row fired 35 degrees off axis and level with the ball. Triggered with wireless ghetto triggers.

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