Hi folks, here are some pics of a photoshoot for founder of UpDown Apparel, Lachlan Hale. I’ll start with a sample pic from the shoot and then some setup shots.
This is one of the shots after it was edited in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. This photoshoot was a good test to practice with off camera flash. The ambient light was under exposed by one to two stops in manual mode, and the flashes were used to brighten up the subject, again using manual exposure.
Camera left is a flagged Nikon SB-28 on a light stand and camera right is a flagged Nikon SB-24. This shoot was entirely shot in manual mode, as I had a bit of time to experiment and chimp the LCD on the camera to check exposure. Now I typically select AV mode (Aperture Priority) on the camera and play with the exposure compensation to control the ambient light to some degree (as long as I can keep it under 1/200th of second shutter speed).
Both the flashes were triggered with modded Gadget Infinity radio triggers giving me the freedom to move around without being tied to sync cables. The camera I used was a 15MP Canon 50D with a Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 lens. I also had a polariser filter mounted for most of the shoot to chop out two stops of light, so I could control the ambient light easier and kill the reflections on the car as much as possible.
Getting some low down angles.
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Most importantly, you have to have fun on your shoots. Thanks to Lachlan for being a patient subject while I got my exposure right and to Belinda for the setup shots and adjusting my flash output.