jerryph
01-12-2009, 01:05 AM
I've posted this one before, but since it is now more appropriately in a studio section...
What happens when you have a photography studio and several photographers at your beck and call... some with a few very special talents like perhaps an adept Tai-Kwon Do practitioner? Well take a picture of a flying photographer, of course! This concept was thought up by one of my colleagues, but I guided, designed, implemented it and completed the concept in photoshop myself.
Get that one special photographer to give you one excellent 5-foot high jump side kick (took 5 tries before he got it *just* like I wanted... lol), a difficult feat to do on it's own, but now hold a $2000 Nikon D300 at the same time and that adds to the difficulty!
The Process and Lighting info:
The jumping kick was done with 3 lights... 2 umbrella mounted Nikon SB-600 speedlights at 45 degrees camera left and right. A 3rd Nikon SB-800 speedlight mounted camera right and beside the subject. This 3rd flash was snooted so that it gave a very hard directional beam on the subject's arm and throwing a hard shadow across the subject's face (yes, this was very specifically planned and desired).
The shot of the photographer's all lined up used only ambient light from the window on camera left and the strobes set atop the photographer's cameras, and were set to the same channel and group so that I could control their power output from my camera and when I took the picture, all of their speedlights would all flash at the same time I took the picture of the empty backdrop.
Finally, simply combine the 2 layers, align, touch up... and voila, a really fun picture to do in your studio that is original, fun and unique!
What happens when you have a photography studio and several photographers at your beck and call... some with a few very special talents like perhaps an adept Tai-Kwon Do practitioner? Well take a picture of a flying photographer, of course! This concept was thought up by one of my colleagues, but I guided, designed, implemented it and completed the concept in photoshop myself.
Get that one special photographer to give you one excellent 5-foot high jump side kick (took 5 tries before he got it *just* like I wanted... lol), a difficult feat to do on it's own, but now hold a $2000 Nikon D300 at the same time and that adds to the difficulty!
The Process and Lighting info:
The jumping kick was done with 3 lights... 2 umbrella mounted Nikon SB-600 speedlights at 45 degrees camera left and right. A 3rd Nikon SB-800 speedlight mounted camera right and beside the subject. This 3rd flash was snooted so that it gave a very hard directional beam on the subject's arm and throwing a hard shadow across the subject's face (yes, this was very specifically planned and desired).
The shot of the photographer's all lined up used only ambient light from the window on camera left and the strobes set atop the photographer's cameras, and were set to the same channel and group so that I could control their power output from my camera and when I took the picture, all of their speedlights would all flash at the same time I took the picture of the empty backdrop.
Finally, simply combine the 2 layers, align, touch up... and voila, a really fun picture to do in your studio that is original, fun and unique!