A gift for my wife…
Sep 1, 2018 · 3 min read
I took these profiles of the grandkids in secret as a surprise for my wife. And I did it with just ONE unmodified wireless flash. You can do this too. How, you ask?
In the past, I would create this outline effect by using a single wireless flash placed behind the subject’s head, with a homemade grid in front to control the light spill if I were shooting in a confined space. But this time I used a plain flash with no light modifiers at all. I just shot in an open room (no adjacent walls or furniture) and zoomed in to 200mm so I only captured the light around the subject. The final image was a…

