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agelessphotog wrote:
Problem is sometimes we can't always schedule these shoots in good lighting and we sometimes have to do it mid day, sun blazing. Obviously the SB600 struggles, big time. Would we be better off getting a portable strobe that's more powerful and has more light? If so, we would want to use HSS I guess because we want to be able to shoot at F1.4 to F2.8.
Think of the blazing sun as a Good Thing. Sunlight is the gold standard of continuous lighting: really powerful, perfect spectrum, hard, infinity distance. As a light source, it is ultimately malleable, and also unreproductible in the studio (although I strive to fake it). Rather than fight the sun with artificial light, you want to learn how to shape that star in the sky. In rough order of importance, the tools of the sunlight trade are scrims, diffusers, reflectors, and flags. Unfortunately, it's quite a different mix of modifiers and skill set than employed by the typical studio maven. You need to be cognizant of such factors as sun position and wind when setting up your shoot. Also valuable are location resources like walls to shape the light.
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