The Need for Speed.

I simply had to grab a shot of my daughter playing with my old motorbike helmet. It was also another good candidate to play with black and white conversion. Exposure 1/80sec, f/5.6, ISO 200

Self Portrait.

This is not terribly flattering but I actually like it. Looking a bit rough round the edges after a few days camping. The image was taken by simply holding the camera out in front of me. Monochrome never fails to add a bit of character. Nikon D80, Nikon 50mm f/1.8 lens, 1/640 sec, f/2.5, -0.7EV, ISO 200.

Golden Hour.

When this blog was started it was as an incentive to complete and report upon the assignments in the Strobist "Lighting 101" course. There is still an intention to keep a high proportion of lit images in the blog so I'll kick off again with this one.



The idea here was to recreate golden hour type light without any such light present. There is an SB800 with 1/2 CTO gel at 45 degrees camera right through a translucent umbrella. To add a bit of light to the hair I placed an SB26 with 1/4 CTO gel at subject left. The power on the SB800 was double that on the SB26 (1/8th and 1/16th). the camera settings were 1/200th second, F/5.6, ISO200m Nikon 18-200mm VR at 80mm.