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Excellent portraits are not necessarily excellent photographic equipment. In fact, the flash outside the camera can work miracles.

When National Geographic magazine sent photographers to perform a task, they were told to do one and only thing: bring back the best photos ever for a specific location and theme, almost at any cost and for how long. Excellent portraits are not necessarily excellent photographic equipment. With a little understanding, you can abandon the expensive studio strongpoint, canvas hanger, hand-held exposure meter, Polaroid back, soft box and some personal belongings that you think are necessary for serious portrait photography.

In order to prove this point, we will show you step by step how to take an artistic professional portrait with only one SLR camera, one overhead flash, several pieces of paper, a cardboard and several other cheap odds and ends. Portrait photography is a big topic, we can't cover it with a few pages, but we can tell you several very practical lighting schemes anytime and anywhere, without any basic equipment and skills of terminology and theory.

You can find techniques and shortcuts that make people like photography, from vulgarity to eye-catching-all without robbing a bank.

A lighting system that uses only overhead lights. Yes, as you know, most professional portrait photographers use up to four flash multi-flash systems. In order to achieve the same effect by using the set-top box single flash system, you must first know what function each flash plays. Quite simply, each lamp in the four-lamp system has a unique purpose.

Main light source

This light is used to illuminate the object and take measurements to determine the exposure. Your main light source is connected to your camera's overhead flash (possibly TTL exposure system) through an offline wire of 10-25 feet. You may have heard it before, and here we repeat: the first way to improve the light of your portrait is to keep the flash away from the camera. The flashlight overhead gave off a dim light. Keep your main light away from the camera and keep it in a position where you can describe the bone structure, skin and other facial features of the subject. The flashlight fixed on the top of the machine can't show creativity.

There are several ways to control exposure when using the external flash of the camera. We recommend using TTL flash and wires that match your camera brand. This will connect the off-board flash and the camera's built-in exposure meter to control the exposure. The problem is that the line provided by the camera manufacturer may be too short, so let the manufacturer order an extension line. A 20-25-foot-long PC cable can also be replaced, and it is very cheap. Your camera's built-in exposure meter may not work, but we will teach you a way, even if you don't have an exposure meter, even if your camera doesn't have a built-in PC plug-find a set-top box plug converter.