Mimic Big Natural Light With a Speedlight for Environmental Portraits

Mimic Big Natural Light With a Speedlight for Environmental Portraits

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Joe McNally

Joe McNally is an internationally acclaimed photographer whose career has spanned more than 30 years and included assignments in 60 countries. McNally is often described as a generalist because of his ability to execute a wide range of assignment work. His expansive career has included being an ongoing contributor to the National Geographic – shooting numerous cover stories and highly complex, technical features for the past 25 years; a contract photographer for Sports Illustrated; as well as shooting cover stories for TIME, Newsweek, Fortune, New York, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Join Joe McNally as he deconstructs the natural-looking speedlight lighting set-up from a shoot in Saint Lucia of the Eastern Caribbean.

In this episode, Joe McNally explains how you can take a small speedlight and turn it into natural-looking daylight. He’ll show you how he created the light in a scene using small flash units and made it look like it was natural daylight streaming through a window. Using this technique you can shoot more dramatic environmental portraits.

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