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Julian Keeler
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After a brill afternoon in Darrens studio I have been trying to practice what he showed me at home on the kids and Mrs stood against a white door, but it really doesnt work, with out all the fancy clobber Darrens got in his studio like the 7 foot soft box thingy and 3000 flashes etc whats the easiest way to practise with the two flashes I have built in and sb900.

I have been experimenting using timer mode so all 4 of us can get on, and get the dog on its own etc. I am gobsmacked at the quality the studio makes up from just against a white painted door and a flash.
 
I think I get what you mean, but I have had good results from a flashgun and a white door, if it is High Key your after.
 
What effect are you after? You can use CLS with your flash on a tripod and use the built in flash as a second light. Need to sort out a backdrop but it is do-able.
 
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You don't need anything fancy, Julian. Your SB900 will do the job and a white sheet or shower curtain can be pressed into service as a diffuser....
 
Honestly Julian, it's pretty easy to substitute a studio.
Think of it in terms of light. Light is light - there's a billion different kinds of light, but when it comes down to it, it's just light.

For quite a while I used a flash gun (sometimes on the camera with a diffuser and sometimes with a brolly on a stand) and 3 el cheapo lamps from Argos (2 tall ones and one desk lamp) with the desk lamp on a table and the tall ones either side of the backdrop. A backdrop can be a curtain, a wall....whatever. Ikea sell muslin curtains cheap....and you don't have to use white!!

Using the set up above, photoshop and the kit lens, I came out with images like this, just about a year ago, when I was just starting with photography.

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This one is straight out of the camera I think. I know I did it for the natural beauty project ;)

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and this one didn't have a massive amount of photoshop work!
 
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All I want to do is to be able to make the background white use the flash behind it and maybe my reflector to make the images clear and crisp like how we did in your studio Darren, we are going looking for some little hand clamps to attach some fabric or curtain etc to either the curtain pole or door, I just loved the crispness of the photos taken at yours Darren and want to do more of it, out of the different areas of photography I have been trying out so far I love architechtural and portrait. Motorsports I dont think I will ever truly master wild life I enjoy not tried macro yet but hopefully I will do sometime.
 


If this is the look you want, it was shot using 3 flashguns, one of them on camera, the other 2 lighting the background.

Background is an old sheet, and the flooring is an old Ikea shelf.

It can be done with little resource and some time experimenting.

(shot is maybe a touch bright)
 
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