Create a black background wherever you are.

C3-PO loves his black background. Now I told him that I could take a great portrait of him with a black background and while at first he didn’t believe me. So how did I achieve this you may ask?

That would be the power of the speedlight. After learning about the functionality of a speedlight being used to brighten up a subject while keeping my camera’s exposure relatively low the light is able to then light only what it is being pointed at. For another example, I took one of myself after placing my speed light on a light stand.

After seen those results of C3-PO and myself, I wanted to get yet another subject that would be interesting to show, so grabbing my wife’s globe from off the shelf I was able to then postition it on my kitchen table and aimed the light at the world like the sun. I just hope that Hawaii is doing alright with all their heat I gave them. 

Here is a behind the scene photo of me getting the globe on my table. Don’t pay attention to the ghetto snoot I put over the speedlight, I was mostly just playing around.