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My name is Anthony Maddaloni and I'm going to be talking about on location lighting.
So on location lighting can be many different things for many different types of photography.
It can be from lugging huge strobe units around and power packs to just having a little flash
in your pocket to light a particular scene the way that you think you might want it lit.
For me personally, I tend to use older cameras, I like to travel very light in and out of
areas where I can potentially go unnoticed. I enjoy photographing people quite a bit and
I really need my flash. I need it to create that lighting that I want so for me on location
lighting can be a nice external flash that I can attach to a camera and I can either
use directionally at subject or I can bounce it off of something. One particular instance
was where I was photographing a pair of sisters and I saw them at a bar and they had gone
outside and I really just thought these people were extremely interesting looking. I rarely
don't ask people, I really always ask people if I can photograph them. I don't like going
up to strangers and just photographing them, especially in a bar or someplace where all
kinds of shenanigans could potentially happen. I saw them walk outside and it was still rather
dark and I asked them if I could take their picture. And when they saw the type of camera
I was using and the flash and how quickly I assembled it, they started, they really
found it pretty comical how quickly I worked. But, to my advantage this worked. They really,
they were put at ease and the flash lit them up in such a way that it was again, kind of
nostalgic, kind of beautiful. So that is a way that I use on location lighting for some
of my photography.