new strobe to solve my lighting problem!

[BLUESEASONBALI]

I am currently shooting with a Sea & Sea DX 1G wide angle and Sea & Sea 110a strobe, im loving the close ups i get with the wide angle on soft sponges shooting with a relatively fast shutter speed but still using the ambient light from pointing upwards to gain a really nice blue background. however when ever i use a model to muse for me behind the close up subject they always seem to be very underexposed or just not illuminated! im thinking of getting a 2nd strobe for this solution, (maybe a ys27) so that i can shoot the foreground with the ys 27 and use the 110a on the subject behind!

What do you think?

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[ClosefocusWA]

Hello,

Sounds like two strobes might help - but one caveat to that.

I shoot SLRs with Dual Strobes usually, but have rented the S&S D1G on occasion when I didn't have my own setup available.

With the D1G, I found it harder to control strobe power and balance ambient exposure with strobe fill. Couldn't seem to get the strobe to fire at full power (even those that was what I wanted it to do!) - the camera seemed to quench the strobe in response to ambient exposure (shoot up into the sun).

So it may be worthwhile to see if there's a way to change the exposure control to fully manual on the D1G - that alone may help to solve.

Having said all that, the strobe fill is determined by three things - aperture, strobe to subject distance, and strobe power. So to get more strobe light on a secondary point of interest (your model), you could get more strobe power (second strobe), shoot at a wider aperture and aim the strobe to light more evenly the foreground and secondary point of interest, or move the model closer to the strobe.