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lighting a large group

Andy · 2005-10-20 17:09:25

this came to me by private message - it's something that many will benefit from so i'm starting a thread. yep - 3 580s will be fine - i betcha even 1 580 and 2 420s will do the trick - that's the setup i use for stuff like this. i just went through two seminars on lighting today at photoplus expo in nyc - one on technical…

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Shay Stephens Registered Users Posts: 3,165 Major grins

January 25, 2006 edited January 25, 2006

Probably a bad term choice. Think of a kicker as you would a rim light. My useage of the light on that shot, while it does come from the side, doesn't quite fall under kicker. But it's not quite fill either. So I am torn for a vocabulary to describe it any better.

Maybe I should have just call it a main light and the ambient light was the fill. Yes, that will be my story that I stick with

Blurmore wrote:

I've never heard it called a 'kicker' as Shay uses the term

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