Saturday, December 26, 2009

Christmas Morning Photos

This Christmas morning I tried out an off camera, multi-light setup that I learned from David Hobby on his Strobist blog. This setup worked great! Here is a sample of my grandchildren playing with their new Wii video gaming system.
Based on the information I learned on Strobist, I used two Nikon SB-26 electronic flash units placed in opposite corners of the room. Each flash unit was mounted on a light stand and aimed at the ceiling from about a foot away. The flash units were set on manual, and set to 1/2 power. One flash was connected to a PocketWizard Plus II, and the other was set to use its internal optical slave. Photos were taken with a Canon 5D Mark II and the remote flash was triggered by a PocketWizard TT1 (for Canon) unit.

The walls were light beige in color, and they, along with a table lamp, added a slight warming to the light

I am learning a great deal about photographic lighting from Strobist. I recently purchased a set of DVD's on photographic lighting by Dean Collins, one of photography's greatest lighting innovators. I learned about him and found the link to purchase these DVD's in a Strobist article about Collins.