I’m grieving along with the rest of Red Sox Nation this morning, so I’ve decided to write something, just to get The Meltdown out of my head. I was shooting some pictures last night, checking out our newly acquired Canon 70-200 2.8L IS, which is an awesome piece of glass, as all the reviews would seem to agree as well. We are stoked to have this in our arsenal, and look forward to the improved performance over the noisy Tamron (don’t get me started…).
Anyone who’s followed our photography for a while has seen a few of our Night Lights Sessions, in which we shoot our clients against an urban background at night, lighting the subject with off camera flash. This technique is something that we’ve learned entirely from online sources, mostly from David Hobby’s amazing site, www.strobist .com. I was also lucky enough to see both Hobby and his fellow Off Camera Flash Master, Joe McNally, during their “Flash Bus Tour” earlier this year, which was an awesome learning experience as well. I encourage everyone to go and check out Strobist.com, if they want to find a literal step-by-step guide to off camera flash.
I made the above picture, with our Canon 5D Mark II (tripod mounted), 70-200 2.8L IS @ 200mm, ISO 200, 1/10th @ f/3.5. The lighting set up can be seen below.
The only thing that was different was the red background; I used that red blanket that you can see on our couch, just draped it over the edge of the table. You can see the strobes, two Canon’s and a Nikon SB-28, the setting of which I actually forgot to write down before I tore everything down…but you guys are going to have to forgive me, because all this was being shot during my beloved Red Sox and The Meltdown (still sick to my stomach). I triggered the strobes using Twin Link flash triggers, and the above picture came out of my birthday present, and my daily companion, the Canon G12. (Thank you baby!)
I made a couple of minor adjustments in Adobe Lightroom. I am loving our new glass, taking it to Denver tonight to do a Family Session on the 16th Street Mall. Stay tuned!
Trav
