Mastering off camera flash is great for portraits, but why stop there? This morning, I went to a press conference. The kinda-boring-guy-standing-behind-a-microphone talking-to-the-media type of press conference.
I setup a remote flash on a magic arm and a super clamp on a chair, fired thru a pocket wizard. At least, I could say that I got some nice light out of it. Super clamp and magic arm are fun. You can set them up pretty much everywhere, and you can attach a flash or a remote camera to them. The limit is your imagination!
Technical: Canon EOS 1D mark II, 1/250 at f5 with a 70-200 at 170mm – ISO 200, black and white in post-production
So, do I have a problem with this? I sure do. To me, it is misleading. The newly toned picture looks flashed or looks like it was shot outside during a night football game. Not inside a well-lit dome it was shot in. The background is blackened out. And frankly, this new dramatic lighting changes the entire mood of the picture. The reader walks away with a different feeling.
When post-processing skills are just too much.
It’s still at the early beginning of the project, but here is my new « Google-friendly stock photo system ». I have more than a thousand photos to add, but I wanted link to it so Google can start to crawl.
The system cost me some serious buck to be exactly how I wanted it to be, but I’m sure I will recoup my investment pretty quickly. Sometimes, you have to invest money to make more money.
Gatineau Olympiques goalie Ryan Mior makes the save in a 6-2 win against the Remparts at the Colisée Pepsi in Quebec City April 8, 2008. Gatineau leads the series 3 to nothing.
