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Oct 29, 2021Liked by Adam Ferguson

Since I’ve started fallowing you I’ve noticed you choke your lights with a snoot, cinefoil or soft grids a lot. I like the approach and technique you use but maybe you could tell us how you’ve arrived to this technique as this would be your look moving forward.

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Oct 31, 2021Liked by Adam Ferguson

The last post made me be interested to hear of any 'lighting the story' workshops you would run in Sydney.

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Nov 1, 2021Liked by Adam Ferguson

Hi Adam,

I don't know if it's too late to post a question, but on the off chance that it isn't, I'm curious about how you start dialing in camera settings once you do have a concept in mind, as in your quarantine self-portrait. I'm really interested in mixing ambient with flash/strobe. With strobe, I know shutter speed has a significant effect on the ambient light; how does that differ when working with a continuous light source when mixed with ambient & natural light? Does it? To again reference your recent self-portrait, you stopped down 2 stops to have the look and feel of indeterminate time, and so I think went from f2.8 to f5.6 and the 1/30 must've remained. Would 1/125 at ff2.8 have given you a very similar look, but you knew that you didn't want a very shallow depth of field? Do you start with the aperture and work from there, or does it differ scenario to scenario? As always, thank you so much, Adam!

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Oct 29, 2021Liked by Adam Ferguson

In what circumstances do you use synthetic light outdoors and how?

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