Working as a location photographer is all about glitz and glamour right?
Well in this particular case i would say yes absolutely which was provided by the beautiful Sue a burlesque dancer and valued customer of mine. However mother nature was not going to make it easy for us.
This happens to be one of the coldest shoots ive done add to that driving rain and for sue to trust me in the weather we had and to be wearing very little just makes me respect how far she is willing to go for her art.
We could have just played it safe and had a studio shot but no my idea for sue was to have her, me and my assistant Kev sneak into a local park after closing time and go under this cool little bridge which would provide an interesting scene for us to shoot with.
The setup
in weather like this you need to be keeping warm… poor sue
The setup was simple for the shoot it was to be a 2 strobe affair the main one being off camera right and with my gridded beauty dish attached.
I don’t know why i keep going for this modifier it just seems to work really well for my style of photography.
Second Speedlight was placed behind her around 5 meters away so i could light up the floor and also the feathers of her fan at the same time.
setting up the rear strobe notice the attached glow stick this serves so i can see if the flash is in shot and also as a health and safety thing for joe public
No modelling lights here
setting up a strobe is super easy you really don’t need a modelling light at all you just aim the strobe in the general direction then get close and look down the barrel of it so to speak and aim it at your subject.
all you really need to know is how wide you are at your zoom settings.
the shoot went on with constant reviewing of the images to make sure that my customer was happy with the results we were getting.
I realise there are a lot of photographers who do not let the client see the back of the camera and prefer to just give them the final finished images and that’s fine each to their own but i am of the get it in camera variety and actually do very little processing of my images as a result so i have no issues showing the customer as its never far off what i am providing them.
eventually the cold got to us and we went back for a cup of tea to warm up.
other setups were done on the night here are a couple of shots from this particular setup
So there it is another blog done big thank you to Sue for letting me blog about this and thanks to Kev for his help on the night and background shots and of course thank you for reading this. comments welcome and please use the share buttons below to share with your peers the more people i have following my escapades the more I want to write for you.
