VOGUE inspired shoot with MagMod

Por MagMod

01 de September de 2020

Wedding photos made AWESOME with MagMod!

For this wedding, my second shooter and I decided that we would do a vogue inspired composite shot for the bride and her bridesmaids.

The idea is to light each of them with my MagBox 24" Octa individually and composite all 7 images back into the same, final image.

This gives me the ability to get really close to each person and have the ability to shape the light hitting them in a way that wouldn’t be possible if I were to light them from afar.

For the technical aspect of this shot, I used a 24mm lens at f/7.1 to ensure they were all in focus (since they weren’t all on the same focal plane.) My shutter speed was at 1/125 sec. and my ISO was at 100 to prevent noise from coming into the image in p

I used the MagBox 24" Octa with and the fabric diffuser, with a speedlight at 1/32 power to get nice, soft light on them.

(You could use something like the MagSphere and Grid as well to get more controlled light, with a slightly different look!)

FINAL RESULTING IMAGE

Some tips if you’re interested in shooting a bridal party composite: You DO NOT need a tripod! This wasn’t shot with a tripod. When you bring the images into photoshop, you can use the align layers tool and photoshop will act as a digital tripod and alig

For this next image, I used High Speed Sync (aka: HSS) and my MagBox in order to erase the distractions from my backgrounds. I enjoy using this technique when I don’t have much space, or beautiful backgrounds to work with!

Less than ideal backgrounds vanish with a little creativity and MagMod!

The idea behind HSS is to give you the ability to override the shutter sync speed limitation when using off camera flash. When using Off-Camera Flash, your shutter speed is the most direct control of your ambient light. With HSS enabled, I can bring my shutter speed up to 1/8000 and get rid of that messy background you see in above the BTS shot!

Since the shoes were sitting on a mirror, I placed my MagBox with the Fabric Diffuser directly on top of the shoes in order to create a nice reflection from the mirror: