A bit of evening flash....

[Bristol Pete]

Evening all.

Went out and shot some late evening street portrait with a friend to test some ideas. Usual things here in that I applied a much higher ISO to bring balance to the background, something I learnt watching a Nikon CLS demo. A couple not quite as bright as others but intentionally stopped down to bring the back drop down. These are OK. To be honest, to me, flash has/is and continues to be the hardest thing I have had to learn and whilst it is getting there, it continues to exasperate me from time to time. Oddly enough I now own an Su-800 but did not use it as just grabbed a few frames on a recce tonight. These were shot on my 24-70 and how I wanted my 70-200 back...

Pushed through LR2 with a couple of custom presets and a couple of generic presets. On the colour shots I upped the green hue and lowered the green contrast to give a better skin tone. One flash used.

[edddie_veddder]

Any strobist info pete? did you use a soft box? Flash on a stand?

[edddie_veddder]

Great shots BTW, love the bokeh and the crops. Nice job on balancing the subject and background.

[Bristol Pete]

Originally Posted by edddie_veddder

Any strobist info pete? did you use a soft box? Flash on a stand?

Hi mate, only one flash in manual on the D3 so not really strobist as such, more a case of managing high iso to balance the background is all.

Thanks for the comment by the way.