August is Jumping Fun

Here's my submission for the August assignment (it is still August).

The setup I used was a full length backdrop, two umbrella's with remote triggered Canon 580EX2 speedlites. Both lights are camera left, the main light is coming in from above and the secondary light is coming in from below at a reduced lighting level. The camera is set to Aperature Priority so the shutter speed was 1/250sec, the lens is a 24-105mm set at about 24mm.

I then asked each young lady (Stacie, Amy) to jump up into the air. The trick was making sure to get all their appendages into the frame and to get a fun looking pose. I have to hand it to Amy who was jumping with heels on, very brave. The camera was tethered to my laptop, so we could see the results quickly and try different things. We certainly had a good time taking these pictures.

My best to everyone,

David Gralian

http://www.davidgralian.com/

david@davidgralian.com

August

Here's my assignment for August - single studio strobe with modeling light on high to capture the blur. Hope everyone is enjoying the end of the summer season. Looking forward to the fall.

Fred

Dignan at the cabin

Hey All--

Here are my shots for the August assignment. My family has a cottage on a little lake in Michigan, and my dog, Dignan, loves to "fetch" off the dock. Obviously I was limited in terms of light position in the shot of him flying through the air (difficult to mount a light stand on water), so the flash is almost direct (it was in the paddleboat with me). In the picture of him shaking off, the strobe is camera right. I wish I would've underexposed the ambient more here and bumped the flash power up, but you have to think & act fast to even catch this shot in the first place... you never know where & when he's going to shake off! The shot of him on the dock is a direct flash from camera left (cross lighting with the sun), and the fun one is just him finally checking out this flash business up close!

Motion

so here's the latest.  slow shutter, tripod and table top technique to fast shutter hand held.

That's the how, the why I'm finding more and more is the question I'm asking myself theses days.

What do I really want to say and what is trying to happen in the image.  In this case our friend Susie is a movement artist and soon to be dance student.   She's leaving us for school

and I wanted to comment on the potential of her talent before being refined.  That was the why

and it was the difference in achieving something technically and actually discovering something personally.

Fun with the EZYBox

I am really loving the EZYBox - my neighbors were having a yard sale yesterday so I had to grab this shot.