With this brief i had to produce one 20" by 24" digital c-type print that showed use of fill flash. At the start i had no idea what a Metz flash was or what it even looked like. Now though i feel i am apt at applying flash to my photography and understand the advantages and disadvantages that come with this equipment. To begin with it wasn't easy balancing the amount of flash i put onto the subject and background, as my confidence grew i realized how versatile Metz was and could be. i started bouncing the flash off the surroundings to light the backdrop or the subject individually. putting more of the flash onto one or the other. when it came time to shoot i coupled the Metz with a 5D mark II. i was sufficiently confident with both that i was able to achieve the desired effects in only a couple of shoots giving me plenty of time to edit using capture one software. This being my first time using capture one, it felt a little awkward to begin with, i usually use Lightroom. Capture one is actually quite easy to pick up and actually sped up workflow as it has a lot of handy features that Lightroom doesn't. After using capture one and researching a bit about it i found out that professionals use it more often than not. Also i found out that my uni was actually starting a capture one course costing about £350, and if passed this gives me open access to capture one and a nice certificate which will look really good with my C.V.
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