Andrew Dyer
Backstage Clones
I took this clones shot to try out an idea I had for a photo, and as usual, I was my only available test subject. The clones are wearing Riding Lights Theatre Company rugby shirts, reading Riding Lights sketch books, and drinking from Riding Lights mugs.
Lighting - I set my camera to ISO 200, 1/1000s (purely because it amuses me that I can flash sync so fast) and at f/4.5 (the widest setting my lens offered me). The camera used an ebay slave to trigger my Metz 45, placed above and to the right of the camera. It was set in auto mode, and settings at ISO 200, f/5.6 persuaded it to expose how I wanted. The flash also triggered an optically slaved Sigma 500 set camera left at 1/8 power, zoomed to 105mm, and aimed at the section of the wall shown in the mirror.
The lights are all hard because the pale walls, and numerous mirrors in the theatre's backstage changing room meant that there was a lot of reflected light.
Backstage Clones
I took this clones shot to try out an idea I had for a photo, and as usual, I was my only available test subject. The clones are wearing Riding Lights Theatre Company rugby shirts, reading Riding Lights sketch books, and drinking from Riding Lights mugs.
Lighting - I set my camera to ISO 200, 1/1000s (purely because it amuses me that I can flash sync so fast) and at f/4.5 (the widest setting my lens offered me). The camera used an ebay slave to trigger my Metz 45, placed above and to the right of the camera. It was set in auto mode, and settings at ISO 200, f/5.6 persuaded it to expose how I wanted. The flash also triggered an optically slaved Sigma 500 set camera left at 1/8 power, zoomed to 105mm, and aimed at the section of the wall shown in the mirror.
The lights are all hard because the pale walls, and numerous mirrors in the theatre's backstage changing room meant that there was a lot of reflected light.