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Flash in the Fields

 

Yesterday Kimberly Brooke Green invited a couple of us up to hang out and shoot at one of her favorite locations near her studio in Westminster, MD. It was an amazing run-down barn and adjacent field with beautiful scenery everywhere you look. It has rained briefly earlier that day which made for gorgeous cloud cover for photography. Also Kim had her friend Bassin (who made for a great model) come out and hang with us for the afternoon! Check it out!


The "light tree" that Kim and I put together with an SB-80, two SB-900s, a SB-800 and four pocket wizards...all held on with Justin Clamps!

of COURSE I had to do a self-portrait!

Armin went to go pick up his car at the shop, so he missed this one...

Nikon's Angels!

Winder woman Kimberly Brooke Green!

DC PhotogShootout June 2009

Yesterday I met up with about 50 other photographers from the Baltimore/DC/Richmond markets for a the FIRST DC PhotogShootout. We all had a ton of fun, and it was great seeing good friends again, as well as meeting new people. Of course, as I've done at the past couple get-togethers, I ran up a very high shutter count on my D3 and created a stop-animation of the day (with some iPhone 3GS video thrown in for good measure)! Enjoy!

Here's the link if you want to watch in full quality!

 

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Motorcycle: Speedlite Style

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One of my friends just bought a motorcycle and since I had a few hours of downtime, we decided to go out and take some cool night-time photos of it. We really want to do some motion shots on the highway, but didn't want to risk causing an accident during a weekend night (I already had my flashes attached to the car with Justin clamps and everything before I even thought about the problems we might cause!)...maybe later this week we'll get around to it. Anyway, I just wanted to share some of my favorites from tonight along with some setup shots so you can see where light was coming from (didn't think of taking setup shots until about halfway through the shoot). Enjoy!

Unfortunately all I had on me to take set-up shots with was my iPhone...not exactly the best quality at 10PM with little to no good light! As you can see, I was using three speedlites: two SB800 flashes and one SB900. Two were triggered using Pocketwizards and the other triggered by SU-4 mode on the SB800. All the flashes had different powers of CTO (Color Temperature Orange) gels and the camera was set on Tungsten white balance. This gives a nice gradient of different shades of normal to cool tones, which work well for glossy metal.

 

When taking pictures on shiny metal objects (like cars and bikes) make sure to place your flash where you won't get a direct reflection...except maybe on chrome accents