this shot was lit w/ two SB-600's, sitting on flash-stands and bounced off umbrellas. one camera right, and one camera left directly in front of the car, both just out of frame. flashes were fired at full power via radio triggers. shot at 1/125s for the light fall-off, although it resulted in an underexposed shot; i had to raise the exposure in post.
pretty much just standard two-point lighting. hope this helps.
Try the same thing with bare flash heads. You'll get smaller reflections and more light to overpower ambient. It's also easily directional so you can control spill on the ground to give you a more dramatic shot. Paint is forgiving to hard light. No use using modifiers for this type of shot until you get 30x20ft softboxes.
jmcfadden wrote:
that is strong work Josh , esp the nice kitty cat
Thanks. Got a full series of him. Got lucky. Not often a completely wild cat will just hang around for an hour letting you shoot photos of him at close range. Suppose the same could be said about the moose as well... how a 1200 lbs animal can hide/wander out 30 feet from ya is still beyond me... lol
This is my first post here on FM, so hello everbody!
I've been reading this forum for a while and already got lots of useful information from here. I really like the friendly way people behave on the forum.
I'm from Austria, please excuse my mistakes in spelling that may occur. The first pic I'd like to show here is this part of an old austrian steam loco, taken last october.
Man, I love this thread! I snapped this one in a subway in Manhattan. I didn't have a tripod so I pressed the camera against a column and held it there in order to get the 1/3 sec shutter speed to look sharp. I liked how you could still see the "B" in the train .
