Saturday, December 22, 2012

Behind the scenes #8, Part 1 - Simulating the autumn sun, outdoor photo shoot with Anouk

Behind the scenes #8, Part 1 - Simulating the autumn sun, outdoor photo shoot with Anouk - outdoor lighting








Behind the scenes #8, Part 1 - Simulating the autumn sun, outdoor photo shoot with Anouk

On a rainy/grey day at the end of october 2009 we did an outdoor photoshoot with Anouk in a forest near Hanover/Germany. To get some warm pictures with the typicall golden autumn sun I prepared a SB-900 with full CTO's to simulate a golden daylight. Mainlight was an Elinchrom Quadra A-Head with a beautydish. This is Part 1, Part 2 will follow in a few days... Pictures can be watch in big here: simonsenphoto.com Have fun! Equipment Nikon D3 with 24-70 mm 85 mm f/1.8 70-200 mm 2.8 VR SB-900 Elinchrom Quadra A-Head Music Joe Colledge - "Beautiful Girl" (you can find him here: www.joecolledge.com) & digitaljuice.com
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24 comments:

  1. Thank you! I set the WB manually to around 5600 Kelvin what gave a warm tone in combination with the Elinchrom Quadra. Editing in LR with Nikon's "Standard" profile. But I shot a photo with a grey-/white-card too to be on the safe side for the post process in LR, just in case... ;-)

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  2. Brilliant photos! Thanks for sharing. Quick question, have you got your WB setting set at Auto throughout the whole shoot? I like the warm tone on Anouk's skin, was this post adjusted in LR? Oops, that two questions =). Thanks in advance. All the best.

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  3. It did fit perfectly...best of luck - please look me up if you are in the States.

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  4. It was the perfect song for the video. Thank you for your great work, hopefully a lot of people followed the lead to your website I made. If I can return you a favor and take some photographs of you for your business let me know. Perhaps one of us will be on the other continent sometimes :-)

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  5. Nice work - thanks for using my song, "Beautiful Girl" - much appreciated!

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  6. really cool video - shows the detail of lighting and setup to great effect

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  7. Great video. Thank you for making your videos. They sure do inspire me.

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  8. super! All of your videos are fantastic. Great learning without a big talk! Thank you very much!

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  9. I would rather photo shoot the trees

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  10. exellent my friend, pretty good job with all the tech information, im watching the whole playlist and it's superb! lots of thing to learn, thanks for the upload!

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  11. Sweet. Thanks for the info. Looking forward to see more of your videos.

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  12. Thx ;-) The SB-900 was set to manual mode. When using an external flash like the Quadra you can't use iTTL and have to shoot with the camera in M-Mode. So the only way is to set the SB-900 in SU-4 mode (make the built-in photocell active) and put it in M. I think the setting was about 1/4 or 1/8 when we used it as the "sunlight". Hope this helped, please take a look to the corresponding blog post too... :-)

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  13. Excellent. Very informative and some great  pics.
    Quick question - what was the SB-900 set on ? 200mm + 0EV?
    I enjoy your simple, uncomplicated approach to lighting.

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  14. Amazing! Delicate and mainly creative to me !
    Keep up !

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  15. : longer... so the background had been overexposed

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  16. What would the exposure be had you not had any flash with you?

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  17. Really Awsome Pictures !!!!

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  18. You did a great job!)

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  19. Thank you for posting!

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  20. Great pictures! - thanks for sharing :)

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