flashing with hay-bales...

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flashing with hay-bales...

Postby jdear on Wed May 07, 2008 6:59 pm

I dug up some photos I took with my little bro (also on this forum - jdear_89) down at Jamberoo when some hay-bales were still out. i.e unwrapped and not stacked. We were taking some landscapes - but the sun didnt do much interesting when it set...

This is a photo of James in the distance shooting some bales - 2 stop HDR merge... Shot with my old Nikon 15:3.5 Ais lense (shows up as 50mm 1.8 in exif!) with adapter on 5D - I have no idea what the actual aperture was - I think it was around f11/f18 using the hyperfocal scale.
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so I pulled out the flashes and had a bit of a play...

This was an 8 second exposure and I walked (read run) around James and popped off the flash at different places to paint him in (including the 'sun' between his hands)
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some crazy air time...

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and just a bit of flash on James for a portrait
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and as usual a few more on my blog. Thanks for looking! I want to play around more with long exposures and flash painting - Id love to do a sort of paparazzi shot with a whole bunch of flashes going off in the background.

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Re: flashing with hay-bales...

Postby Glen on Wed May 07, 2008 7:22 pm

Everyone of those images caught my attention in some way :up:
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Re: flashing with hay-bales...

Postby NJ on Wed May 07, 2008 7:46 pm

all stunning, but that first shot really takes the cake.

didnt see ur brother in the distance until you pointed it out, and now that i see it, it adds so much more depth to the image :)
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Re: flashing with hay-bales...

Postby Pehpsi on Wed May 07, 2008 9:41 pm

Great set of pics :) I think I appreciate them a little more due to the fact that I never use any flash and am a little clueless in that department..
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Re: flashing with hay-bales...

Postby PiroStitch on Wed May 07, 2008 10:04 pm

creative concept with holding the sun :) nicely balanced flash work as well.
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Re: flashing with hay-bales...

Postby chrisk on Thu May 08, 2008 10:24 pm

so much to love about these shots i dont even know where to begin.
superb use of flash. well done.
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Re: flashing with hay-bales...

Postby surenj on Thu May 08, 2008 11:46 pm

Awesome shots! Your bro did well to keep still in the multiflash image...
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Re: flashing with hay-bales...

Postby Peter DYER on Mon May 12, 2008 9:01 pm

The first shot is stunning, the second one very clever well done. More please!
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