I just uploaded another behind the scenes-video to YouTube and Vimeo.com. It shows the first part of an outdoor senior photo shoot with the beautiful Anouk. She was just 16 when we did this at the end of last October so her parents signed a release for her. Only 16, but she did it very well!
I had planned to take some warm photographs with the typical golden autumn light – but it was a grey, rainy day full of dark clouds. But we solved this by cheating with a gelled SB-900 as a backlight. With the full CTO (Color Temperature Gel) on the SB-900, zoomed to 200mm, we were able to made an illusion of a sunny day in the forrest
Here are some of the photos and some more that are not included in the video. Have fun. If you have questions please use the comments below this post or at the video page to let others participate at the answers.
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Really great video and lovely pictures.
This has inspired me to use my gel’s in a more creative way. Thx mr Simonsen!
B.r /Fredrik S, Sweden
Fredrik, you’re welcome!
Oh, if you wouldn’t mind please say “Stefan”, because I’m not an old teacher *haha*
Outstanding shots/compositions – tack sharp!! Two questions: Do you shoot RAW/NEF? And what Post Processing work did you do (if any)?
-Jim
Hi Jim, when doing portrait-/industrial shoots I’m always using .nef’s and editing them in Lightroom. This days I’m trying Apple’s Aperture too, but the photos in this video were edited just with Lightroom 3 Beta 1, no Photoshop etc…
@ Stefan:
Very Nice. Simple setup with super results. Thanks for another inspiring behind the scenes.
Wonderfully lit.
Hello Stephan, Excellent job, beautiful pictures. One question, What setting did you use in your camera?.
And keep going doing this class of video. Congratulations.
Hi Juan, thx!
Camera in M, ISO at 100-200, 1/250s, and an aperture between 3.5 and 2.5
Hi there,
Can I ask you how you fired the SB900? I just got a set of quadras today and wanted to try firing a flash also.
Just put the SB in the menu to SU-4 to activate the photocell and switch to “remote”. Then your SB will not recognize the iTTL-signals from the master anymore but will fire whenever a flash is firing.
Don’t forget to put the SB in M-Mode and to set the right power. iTTL isn’t available with SU4…
Hope I explained it well
Thanks Stefan, I was nearly there, was setting it in SU4 but not flicking it to remote, so could not understand why it would not fire. Thanks again.
Love looking at your work, lighting is superb!
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I love it! Brilliant work!