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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
I had the pleaseure of working with the players from the 2010 ANZ Netball Championships last Friday. I had been contracted to take the media shots of each player during their other media committments on the day. The players are some of the nicest, and lets admit, tallest, ladies I have ever worked with. Great at following direction and happy to have a little fun when I lost my mind at the end of the day and asked them to stick their tongues out!!
The setup was nice and simple with 2 front lights and one rear 3/4 rim light. All shot on white seamless paper. The lights were the Elinchrom Ranger Quadras connected to the mains. They ran all day faultlessly. I shot tethered to my laptop so the players and I could see what was going on.
I shot a quick video on the 5D to show the room layout, and to see a couple of the more fun photos from the day.
Much thanks to Michael Bradley from MBPhotowho was a kind boss on the day, Looked after me, bought me sushi and coke and kept me in line.
Tags: 2010, advertising, ANZ Championship, backdrop, female, feminine, Homebush, human, human being, human beings, humans, media, Netball, novotel, people, person, portrait, sports, sports & recreation, strobe, team photos, team sports, white
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Yet another of the shots I’ve always wanted to do. A little cliche, but hey. It’s a part of my little elements project, this is, of course, fire.
This video will give you an idea of the setup used. Not all the secrets are here, like how to light the match, but that’s for you to work out!!
Tags: commercial, CTB, fire, Flash, FlexTT5, gel, lighting, match, pocket, remote, setup, smoke, strobe, Studio, Video, wizard
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
I’ve always wanted to do the standard water droplet photo, but never had the time on my hands……until a week or so ago.
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Here’s the studio set-up for the shoot…..
It was a bit of a laugh and good to have done….I do need to get a life though eh!!!
Tags: Blue, CD, Colours, Droplets, Drops, DVD, Flash, FlexTT5, Gels, pocket, red, remote, Studio, Water, wizard
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
I covered some adventure races late last year, and I experimented with using ETTL infra-Red flashes. I wanted to get the main flash off-camera to give a deeper light affect on the subject.
Here’s an extreme example…..
The flash off to camera left is the main light source with the on-camera (on flash bracket – on-camera) flash is acting more as fill. This type of light gives the subject more depth and makes them look more natural.
So what’s the benefit of this in reality…… Well I found the greatest aid was speed in the field. You’re not shooting in a studio with a fixed subject and hours of time. you have 40 seconds to get your shot. With ETTL the remote flashes are already set.
All you need to do is place the remote flash, rotate the flash head so the IR sensor is pointing at the camera (to receive the ETTL Signals) and the head is pointing at the subject. The shoot away.
So Here are the settings :
Camera – I like to shoot in manual, so set your aperture, shutter and ISO to what you want. Remember that you can do ANY shutter speed as the ETTL will do High-Speed Sync. I generally try to shoot the ambient under exposed by 1-2 stops. This creates more depth to the image and brings the subject out of the shot.
Main Flash (On Camera)- you can have this flash on the camera’s hot shoe, but I like to have it on a flash bracket and use an OC-E3 ETTL cable. I’ll explain why later. I set this flash to Master and to channel A. Read the manual for how to do this bit. On the Main Flash you can set the ratios of A:B, i.e. A is 2 x as bright as B or vice-versa. The fact that you have this control on-camera (or on-flash) saves a load of time.
2nd/3rd flashes – I generally use 1, but you can use 2 or more to increase the flash intensity. Set these to Slave and to channel B. Make sure they are in the line-of-site of the IR transmitter of the Main Flash….more later.
So what are the problems; Basically to need to have the flashes in line-of-site of one another. If they can’t “see” each other, they can’t send ETTL flash info. This is why I use a flash bracket. This way I can move the MAIN flash around so the head is pointed at the subject and the IR transmitter is pointed to the remote flashes. It’s the same with the remote flashes. The IR receiver and the head may be pointing in different directions to work.
I have found this method fast, accurate and controllable when in the field. To have all the flash setting under your fingers is a great asset. Go and give it a go…..
Tags: 580, adventure, Bloke, Bracket, Canon, Challenge, ETTL, fill, Flash, photography, race, Ratio, remote, running, ST-E2, Tough
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
It was a blast to spend the day with some of Australia’s best Triathletes. Normally I watch them wizz past me on the course!! The shoot was by FusePhotography and Christian Blanchard was directing the action. I was the #2 shooter getting different angles and candid shots.
The constant heavy showers made the day quite a bit harder. I’ve never been keen on letting my cameras get wet….perhaps I’m a big sook, but these stuff is not cheep so I look after it. Rain covers, plastic bags and the good-old postie elastic band kept everything dry.
I’m pretty happy with the results. I used the ST-E2 and a remote flash (Camera left). Next time I’ll use a 580-Master on the camera with a 580-Slave off-camera for fill. Many of the shots were not clearly lit and given the brand is all important, basic front lighting is kinda important. Everything fixed up ok in post processing, but I’d prefer to get it right on-camera where possible. Given the gloomy day we used 1/2 CTO warming gels on the flashes and set the WB to cloudy. This warmed up the “models” nicely.
I’m looking forward to see the final results. I’ll start stalking Scody shops to see if my shots made the swing-tags etc… Sad I know.
Tags: Blanchard, Christian, clothing, commercial, CTO, Flash, Fuse, Half, Ironman, models, photography, rain, Sport, ST-E2, triathlete, Triathlon
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