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// 52_Thirty-seven // Self-portrait of other people
Me and Disco~Stu met up with the newest recruit to the Weymuff Nikon Massiff today - MidnightRunner247 - for a photoshoot. Much fun, chat and gear swapping was had.
We piled in the car, headed off in a random direction and stopped when we found somewhere we liked the look of. And that place was West Bay, between Bridport and Lyme Regis (I think, feel free to show up my bad geography skills).
We wandered around the town and harbour before heading off to get some SP action.
And this is mine. At the time I had Elie's Sigma 18-50mm on the camera which is a cool lens and seemed to give me more punchy colours than my Nikon 18-200mm.
The whole idea behind this photo was to take a self-portrait that wasn't of me. Yes I'm in it (SPs are really difficult otherwise) but I purposely sat on the furthest away rock and made sure the focus was on Elie . . . who hates having his photo taken. Why I don't know cos he's bustin' some serious moody here (as is Disco, but he is the master of moody) to great effect. Thanks to both Stu and Elie for putting up with me swearing and cursing at my camera, flash and tripod then declaring the amazing evening sunshine to be "not bright enough" before hastily backtracking when I realised that actually it was quite nice.
Still prefer flash light though :)
Oh and it's worth mentioning that I had to Photoshop in extra cliff face on the left hand side because of my crappy framing - I clipped too much off the left hand edge so had to reconstruct the cliff face in post. Stupid thing is now I'm thinking it would've looked better without any cliff. Damn, two hours work down the shitter!
Let this be a warning to everyone - check, double-check and after you've accidently knocked your camera when it's on its tripod check your frame again, or you too might have to Photoshop in extra cliff. Before realising you don't really want it in shot at all. I've still got a lot to learn . . .
Strobist info: Bear with me now . . . I used one of Elie's SB900s on camera to fire Stu's SB600, in the process accidently firing my own flash that hadn't been firing, which is why I borrowed Stu's. The only way I know this is I could see the reflection in Stu's glasses of the two flashes firing. You can see the reflection's in the big on black link. If you like that kind of thing?
So, in short, two SB600s to camera left, one high and aimed down, one about head height, both at full power. Fired by CLS (I guess?) using an SB900 on camera.
// 52_Thirty-seven // Self-portrait of other people
Me and Disco~Stu met up with the newest recruit to the Weymuff Nikon Massiff today - MidnightRunner247 - for a photoshoot. Much fun, chat and gear swapping was had.
We piled in the car, headed off in a random direction and stopped when we found somewhere we liked the look of. And that place was West Bay, between Bridport and Lyme Regis (I think, feel free to show up my bad geography skills).
We wandered around the town and harbour before heading off to get some SP action.
And this is mine. At the time I had Elie's Sigma 18-50mm on the camera which is a cool lens and seemed to give me more punchy colours than my Nikon 18-200mm.
The whole idea behind this photo was to take a self-portrait that wasn't of me. Yes I'm in it (SPs are really difficult otherwise) but I purposely sat on the furthest away rock and made sure the focus was on Elie . . . who hates having his photo taken. Why I don't know cos he's bustin' some serious moody here (as is Disco, but he is the master of moody) to great effect. Thanks to both Stu and Elie for putting up with me swearing and cursing at my camera, flash and tripod then declaring the amazing evening sunshine to be "not bright enough" before hastily backtracking when I realised that actually it was quite nice.
Still prefer flash light though :)
Oh and it's worth mentioning that I had to Photoshop in extra cliff face on the left hand side because of my crappy framing - I clipped too much off the left hand edge so had to reconstruct the cliff face in post. Stupid thing is now I'm thinking it would've looked better without any cliff. Damn, two hours work down the shitter!
Let this be a warning to everyone - check, double-check and after you've accidently knocked your camera when it's on its tripod check your frame again, or you too might have to Photoshop in extra cliff. Before realising you don't really want it in shot at all. I've still got a lot to learn . . .
Strobist info: Bear with me now . . . I used one of Elie's SB900s on camera to fire Stu's SB600, in the process accidently firing my own flash that hadn't been firing, which is why I borrowed Stu's. The only way I know this is I could see the reflection in Stu's glasses of the two flashes firing. You can see the reflection's in the big on black link. If you like that kind of thing?
So, in short, two SB600s to camera left, one high and aimed down, one about head height, both at full power. Fired by CLS (I guess?) using an SB900 on camera.