ben_heys

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Cheers for the kind comments all,

 

Glen, couldn't tell you the settings off the top of my head, would have been around 1/100th of a sec shutter for flash sync and then whatever aperture looked good with the flash, prolly around f11

 

I tried to use the flash on the lowest possible settings to get the fastest flash duration I could.

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Not really a portrait I know but I really couldn't find a category that

seemed to fit.

For a full tutorial on how I achieved this lighting setup see this entry in my blog.

Jaap,

 

Blackmail works fine

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This was just a spur of the moment shot, the fingers belong to my

photographic assistant and it was taken while we were waiting for the

model to fix her makeup - ended being the shot of the day.

Ron, she's lit by a flash (wasn't trying to hide that at all, thought it was obvious?) however the moon is real and the sun was actually rising from an angle pretty similar to where the flash was fired from (pure co-incidence that, I wasn't trying to replicate the rising sun with the flash). Remember the moon is a VERY long way away from us - sunlight would hit it at a different angle than something a couple meters in front of us.

 

In fact if I waited 5mins I could have possibly gotten a very similar shot with natural light alone, just would have lost some of those lovely tones in the sky.

Nude model on location on snow covered mountain.

The view from The Remarkables, New Zealand

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A couple snowboarders shaping a jump

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Shot near Byron Bay, Australia

This was just after a rainstorm, if you look closely you can see a

hint of a rainbow.

This isn't a composite.

Snowboarder doing a rock drop in New Zealand

Thanks for all the kind words guys, to answer the question of location it is on the shore of Lake Tekapo, New Zealand, which is at the base of Mt John, home of the largest observatory in New Zealand and the fastest recorded wind speed in the country (256kph recorded until the wind speed sensor broke). And yeah, it was bloody windy the day I was there...

Shooting straight up in a winter forest

New Zealand

Farmland shot from a small plane

...in Phnom Penh, Cambodia