Location Workshop task - Using the Monobloc

Task - Make three portraits using the sun and the monobloc light as your two light sources. The monobloc light is to be balanced with daylight. The sun will backlight your sitter.

• The first portrait will have a flash to daylight ratio that is too even, thus your flash will overpower the existing light.
• The second portrait will not have enough flash to balance with daylight, so the image will be too dark, and thus unbalanced.
• The third portrait will be 'just right'.

When attempting this task, the day wasn't as sunny as we would have liked it to be, which made it harder to complete as i couldnt easily get the bright light behind my subject.

Here are the results:

Portrait 1:

Monobloc overpowering existing light.

Portrait 2:

Monobloc with not enough light (this was hard to acheive as there wasn't a strong backlight).

Portrait 3:

Light balanced just right.

After we had finished the task, Prue, Cristy and I stayed back for a bit longer to play around with the monobloc. We wanted to play with corporate portraits and backgrounds. We were also talking to Belinda about how at some shoots we may need to work with some difficult backrounds. In the next couple of images you can see how to acheive a nice portrait by just using the corner of a brick wall.

Here are some of the images that I got: