Tech Sheets - Saturday, January 3, 2009 22:59 - 3 Comments

Tech Sheet: Two Speedlights and the Sun for a Dramatic Portrait

Our first Tech Sheet of 2009 is kinda fun. I have been working on getting a client to approve a project I want to do and they did over the holidays. It will be a series of images of athletes and artists in environments that may not be their regular habitat.

This image of an ice skater in the desert was done as a test. Before I embark on shooting the images I want to make sure everyone is on the same page as far as style and concept. Having a daughter who is a high level ice skater made the choice of model easy.

I had scouted a great location last weekend and when I got to it for the shoot, it had been fenced off. It was a dry river bottom and I had some other plans for the shot that would work well in the sand. But getting the kids together with a time frame that worked meant that I had to do the shot in another spot.

I found a road leading right to the setting sun and decided to use it as a graphic element in the shot. The three pieces of the shot then were the desert road, the setting sun and the subject - an ice skater in the desert.

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