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These are portraits of a figure skater in motion. The figure skater, Brooke, actually competed in the US Nationals last month, and so we did a portrait session on ice at her training ice skating rink. I had two continuous lights, Light & Motion's CLx10s, on each side of her, and two Godox AD600's on each side of her as well.
All the images here were shot at 1/3 sec, f/8, and ISO around 200 or so. We turned the house lights off for these shots. I had the flash trigger in hand, and I fired them in an effort to catch her in profile to me. These were the shots that worked out pretty well like that. I took some other normal shots of her with the house lights on, but those were just normal shots. These ones here are the ones I was really interested in from an artistic perspective.
Ron,
Excellent way to convey motion! Some years ago I did something similar - in terms of lighting - that involved a Strawberry, a chef's knife, and a disco strobe. Well done!
Jim
friscoron wrote:
These are portraits of a figure skater in motion. The figure skater, Brooke, actually competed in the US Nationals last month, and so we did a portrait session on ice at her training ice skating rink. I had two continuous lights, Light & Motion's CLx10s, on each side of her, and two Godox AD600's on each side of her as well.
All the images here were shot at 1/3 sec, f/8, and ISO around 200 or so. We turned the house lights off for these shots. I had the flash trigger in hand, and I fired them in an effort to catch her in profile to me. These were the shots that worked out pretty well like that. I took some other normal shots of her with the house lights on, but those were just normal shots. These ones here are the ones I was really interested in from an artistic perspective.
Stunning photography Ron! Top shelf in creativity, uniqueness and ability!
You did her VERY proud!
So well composed and executed!
Suzanne and I are avid figure skating watchers!
Dan
friscoron wrote:
These are portraits of a figure skater in motion. The figure skater, Brooke, actually competed in the US Nationals last month, and so we did a portrait session on ice at her training ice skating rink. I had two continuous lights, Light & Motion's CLx10s, on each side of her, and two Godox AD600's on each side of her as well.
All the images here were shot at 1/3 sec, f/8, and ISO around 200 or so. We turned the house lights off for these shots. I had the flash trigger in hand, and I fired them in an effort to catch her in profile to me. These were the shots that worked out pretty well like that. I took some other normal shots of her with the house lights on, but those were just normal shots. These ones here are the ones I was really interested in from an artistic perspective.
Thanks, James! Always fun to play with time a bit. I'd be curious to see what you came up with!
James Markus wrote:
Ron,
Excellent way to convey motion! Some years ago I did something similar - in terms of lighting - that involved a Strawberry, a chef's knife, and a disco strobe. Well done!
Jim
Thanks, Dan! I've always loved figure skaters, actually interviewed Tonya, Nancy and Kristi back in their day before the '91 or '92 worlds. Maybe '93. I was a sports writer back then in Europe.
Danpbphoto wrote:
Stunning photography Ron! Top shelf in creativity, uniqueness and ability!
You did her VERY proud!
So well composed and executed!
Suzanne and I are avid figure skating watchers!
Dan
airfrogusmc wrote:
#1 is truly amazing. Love the slow shutter to show motion on these Ron.
Voted.
Thanks, Allen! I love how that turned out, but the face isn't quite as sharp as I would have preferred. I want to print one of these large for my studio, and I'll probably go with the composite that's somewhat similar.
