Sharon & I have been on the road since the 15th of Sept and now being home for a couple of days, been slamming and jamming to get things caught up. That includes uploading to the network and backing up the 387GB of images captured since the 15th of Sept, getting 29 prints out (glad others like lighthouses too) and all sorts of other “stuff” done just so we can leave the office again and not feeling guilty for letting Nancy deal with all the rest. In that process of getting images moved over, I’m seeing things I said I would post but never have. So, going to try to get that caught up as well.
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This is from the PSW Vegas Photo Safari lighting class. Lanette was such a good sport to let me use her as a light palette as we talked about flash. In this first photograph, the SB-900 inside a Lastolite EzyBox is about 12′ away from her. Look at the shadows under her face.
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So now we’ve cut the distance in half, the flash now just five feet away from Lanette. Notice how the light is better, shadow not so hard under her face and little better wrap. But we can do better.
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Now the flash is just out of the frame camera right. The EzyBox is actually resting on the shade of the 24-70AFS. Notice how her face has changed with the three lighting distances with this final image having the nicest wrap around coming from a light course that is much larger now that it is so close. This was all in prelude to the “real” shoot where we produced this image.
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There was no “teaching” in this lighting other than those techniques used to make the image. The stage is pretty simple. Lanette is looking saucy and distant from the poor field hand Lane who has come in from a hard day’s work. At least, that’s the lame story I gave these two talented models to help them “get in the mood.” The light is pretty simple. Lanette has a SB-900 with 1/2 CTO pushing through a EzyBox. Lane is another SB-900 pushing through a 1/2 CTO and Honl 1/8 grid spot. All being driven by the SU-800. The mind twist for the folks learning was the fact the camera body is set to -4 exp comp! Why? The sky, I didn’t want washed out, no apparent sunset. I wanted, well, what you see and to get that, I simply underexposed it to submission. The flashes were set to +2 and everything else just feel into place from there. It was great fun and hopefully more folks will pull out their flash and play a little more with this creative light source.
Well, I’ve gotta get back to work. Have a great weekend and expose some pixels for me!