A Quick Portrait Shoot
One of the NICA circus students asked me if I could do a portrait shoot for him. No worries.
After thinking about this a bit, I thought that I would just keep it simple and quick—my time is rather scarce right now. So I found a wall in the shade, put the shutter onto max sync. Or 1/200 actually, because my 50D has more reliability with this than 1/250th. Dialled the aperture to 7.1 for a nice crisp image. Started the ISO at 400, and wound it down to 200 to be a couple of stops (I can’t remember if it was 1 or 2) below ambient.
Set the bare 430EX II to 1/16 power and up against the wall to camera right, just out of shot. And put the other 430EX II on e-TTL firing into a shoot-through umbrella to camera left on the first image, and right for the second.
I was going for a simple relatively safe set up, low post production shot. These are my picks from the 15 minute shoot. Actually, the longest part of this shoot was running into the building to find a sand bag so that the umbrella light stand would stop falling over in the breeze.
Post production was quite straight forward too.
