got the idea for this shot from a kelby training video by joe mcnally. in the video joe talks about how he likes to sometimes set up a flash quite a distance from the subject, with a diffuser screen close to the subject to create that soft light. he says that this "marinates" the light, since a lot of the raw flash bounces around the room and mimics natural light more closely.
i realized that i almost always set up my flash and modifier really close to the subject.... in all the setups i've done i've never had the flash far away, and the diffuser close. so i gave it a try.
so for this one i've got the flash in the far corner of the room, maybe 15 feet away from me. and my 32" trigrip is maybe a foot and a half from my face. the flash is zoomed to 85mm (the max on an sb-28), and honl gridded to shadow the background a bit.
i think it came out pretty well. some random things i like about the setup:
1. that background gradient
2. my eye reflections
3. the possibility of adding a reflector camera left.
and some things i don't like:
1. having to walk to the flash to adjust it every time i move anything.
setup shot:
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