The guru of of camera lighting David Hobby recently wrote a post about some of his favorite strobist post of 2009.

The one I noticed was the three piece article about using two lights.

During these three articles David shares with us, his devoted followers, how he approaches a 2 flash setup.


Snippet from article 1:

“People always ask me how many flashes they should have. That’s an easy one — however many you can afford, plus one or two.

See? Easy.

But a good, basic kit is two speedlights — plus the assorted doohickeys needed to make them work well. And after all, if you have just one flash and it goes down you are merely an available light photographer. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)”

Snippet from article 2:

Last in this series we looked at Riaz, lit entirely by flash against a darkish wooden wall. At left is Brett, who was lit right where he sat in a classroom chair in an unfinished commercial building with a primed drywall background.

This time around: High-axis key light with just enough strobe on the background to separate it from black. More inside.

Snippet from article 3:

Finishing up our quick series on two-light headshot ideas, we finally come around to something a little more mainstream looking. Today, two different spins on umbrella key used with on-axis fill.

More, inside.

I’m getting more and more interested in a two-three light setup after seeing what others have been doing with these small lights…  more on this in a later post.

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  2. Understanding studio lighting + update to the “free video tutorial” page
  3. Portraits with one flash (warning: model not that good looking!…)
  4. Flash Gordon, or??
  5. Low light action (and no it’s not anything kinky)