Night watch

One SB800

Available light

Available light

Available light

Here's some pics I made of night workers at a social emergency ward in Aalborg. They have five employees and 300 volunteers who helps people with (light/minor) mental problems. E.g. if your wife/husband/child dies, if you loose your job, if you suffer from a serious disease or maybe just need someone to talk to, you can call and they have all the time in the world to listen to you. Like most healthcare in DK it's free.

I stayed there for 6 hours and they had 27 phone calls and one who showed up in person to talk.

Knut is the manager. He is from Norway. Most pics are made with available light and a few with just one SB800 plus Honl grid.

See Soundslide - link: http://bjarnehyldgaard.dk/kunde/nattevagt/
Remember the sound.

Cheers, Bjarne

Desert Senior Portrait
Here are some images from a 'High School Senior Portrait' I did about 3 weeks ago. She will be moving to Alaska this summer to go to college, so we thought a desert theme would be fun.

These were taken out in the Arizona desert in late morning (bright) sunlight.

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For light, I just used a translucent panel (Lastolite Tri-grip) to diffuse/soften the hard sunlight that was hitting her.

After I got back and uploaded/processed the images I could tell that one mistake I made was to not have a flick of light into the eyes to make them standout more and provide a highlight. She has beautiful light colored eyes that would have added more 'pop' to the picture.

My key learning there was that I could not see the LCD clear enough in the bright sun, so I wasn't able to see how the image looked clearly enough. I think I've solved that problem, I bought the Hoodman Screen Loupe, just got it so haven't been able to really try it out yet.

Clearly getting out earlier in the day would have been better for both the light and the comfort factor (it was getting kinda hot standing around in the sun).

Any suggestions/thoughts on what else I might have done?

Thanks, David