How to deal with troublesome subjects?

If you take a lot of photos, you will meet such people after a long time:

1. critical

2. Thought you knew how to shoot.

3. It's a little difficult to take a long shot of the subject.

This happened when 5-year-old Ben Hobby took a photo for me as a personal file of the flash club. He was "young and enthusiastic".

It was Friday night, and my wife took her 7-year-old daughter Emily to an all-night girl scout camp (so interesting), leaving us two men at home. We can rearrange the living room at will and do whatever we want (as long as we restore the original state before the ladies go home).

The method of just taking pictures is different from the past, because this time I used four Nikon SB flashlights, three more than a lazy person I used to take pictures.

This is a continuation of my recent research topic-from the portrait of women's lacrosse in The Last Flash of Knowledge.

Curiously, the background is a blank wall, which is illuminated by Nikon SB-24 flash lamp (with beam tube installed on the lamp holder) through the fig tree. I like the shooting technique of creating special lighting effects through the flash of indoor potted plants. It happens that my wife is recognized as a master gardener, otherwise I can only let the flash pass through the plastic bonsai.

Technically, I call this technique "sculpture projection". If you have started thinking at this time-besides, you can use the flash to achieve another lighting effect through other things, very good, my friend, which shows that you have begun to understand.

In a word, the above picture is only the background, which is illuminated by a flash lamp with a beam tube at the upper right (as you can see below). This carved projection pattern is very beautiful, and the effect varies with the position of the flash-think what you like.

(If you take a portrait photo quickly with a flash, you can let the light pass through the plant and then put the subject in a unique "sculpture projection" pattern. As long as the subject can see the flash through the leaves, his eyes will be illuminated by the light and will not be blocked by the shadow of the leaves. But be careful to keep the subject away from the wall so that his shadow will not appear on the screen. )

Originally, the shooting could be completed with a flash, but Pizza Hut said that for some reason, it would take 45 minutes to deliver the takeaway, which left us time to do more complicated things.

Ben helped a lot in this activity. When I set the flash, he moved the camera as needed and helped to take many photos.

Then I put him on the chair and further adjusted the lights.

It looks a bit like Hollywood in the 1940 s, because it looks a bit like the gorgeous lights in the studios of that era. Because the main light uses a narrow beam tube (without auxiliary light), it looks beautiful, which is a bit retro and avant-garde in my opinion.

This wide-angle photo shows the layout of the whole light: the brightness of the higher flash on the right is 1/4, and the light hits the background through the tree. One Nikon SB flash with brightness of116 (put it higher, located on the left side of the camera) shines on the face, and two Nikon SB flash with brightness of 1/64 are used as backlight and side light.

About the top photo in this paper: the shutter speed is 1/250 seconds, which can minimize the influence of on-site light; Wide-angle photography, on the other hand, uses a slow shutter speed, and the lighting layout can be seen due to the influence of the live light.

Big mistake: when the pizza arrived, I found a fig tree pattern on the backlight (flash) on the right. It was easy to do, but the pizza was hot and we were hungry. You know-people put food first.

Camera: Nikon D2h

Lens: Nikon 85/f1.4; Nikon 17-35/f2.8 (wide-angle photo)

Exposure: 1/250 seconds f/8; 1/4s f/8 (wide-angle photo)

Flash: 4 (different models) Nikon SB series, manual, mounted on the lamp holder.

Trigger: 2 flashlights use Puwei, and 2 (Nikon SB-26) use built-in sensors.