Strobes/Flash fun

June 05, 2012  •  Leave a Comment

 On the creative side of things!

With this week mainly going on backing-up files, cleaning up hard drives, booking future travels... I thought it would be fun to try something different to entertain myself on a Monday evening. In the last year or so I've been getting inspiration from some great photographers about using flash/strobes/lighting to create different types of Sportraits. Image 1 out of 2 in the post - picture 2 to be posted later!!

Basketball Strobist imageStrobe2

To entertain the neighbours I carried my tripod and few remote flash-stands to the back garden and went to work :-) Having a lack of willing 'victims' to be subjects for these trials and errors, it once again was left to me to be the photographer and the subject - thank goodness for remote triggers and timers!

Evening sky didn't quite co-operate with me for these images, but it was a valuable learning curve in the process or learning to perfect these skills. Also as one of the ideas was to have an 'airborne' image - perfecting the jump to the 10 second timer proved to be a challenge, so there was plenty of jumping and frustration to be had. 

These types of Sportraits are something that I have an order for for the next basketball season - and after seeing results from a fellow photographer from Finland, really wanted to give it a go myself. As you can see, it is still very much a work if progress - but steps were hopefully taken in the right direction and plenty of learning was done from this evening.. as well as entertainment given to the neighbours!

Set-Up for this shoot was Canon 5D MKII, Canon 24-70mm, two Canon 580EXII flashes, couple of PocketWizards and one crazy Finnish guy willing to make a fool out of himself ;-)

Hope this is as enjoyable for you to look at, as it was for me to take - note to self : 'Get a bigger shirt/jumper for next shoot!!!"

 

 


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