Thank your Lucky Strawberries
April 29, 2009 | Category: Lighting, Photography
I got lucky trying to time some splash shots with a strawberry and some extra Cristal we happened to have laying around. Rather than using an audio trigger (which would’ve been way easier), Field and I decided to test our hand eye coordination (and patience) by manually timing the shots. The cameras were set to bulb in a completely dark room. I dropped the strawberry in one hand and fired a radio trigger in the other. We did get some splashes, but this was my favorite shot. If you look closely at the top left corner you can see strawberry guts from me “bricking” the shot in the dark.
The lighting was provided using my expertly constructed double flashed grid setup. I gaffers taped the hell out of carefully adjoined two Nikon SB800s together and precisely installed (velcro and a prayer) a honl 1/8” grid to the front. This allowed the enough light to operate at 1/64 power for action freezing flash duration.
Final Specs: Nikon D300, 80-200mm 2.8 @ f/8, ISO 200, bulb.
Lighting: 2x sb800s gridded behind and lower than glass, 2x more sb800s, one on either side though large softboxes. All lights triggered by Skyports.
Tags: cristal, Dan Newton, daniel newton, DIY, double flash, glass, Honl Grid, nevada, Nikon D300, Nv, photographer, Photography, Reno, sb-800, strawberry, studio, timing
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Bob Towery
on April 29th, 2009Awesome image and description. I’m looking forward to reviewing more of your site!
Tony Traub
on May 1st, 2009What excellent work. I really like your style of photography.
Thanks for all the info, that is very generous. I’ll be studying
your web site for some time to come. Definitely want to give
some of your teqniques a try.
Keep up the good work.
Jim Crane
on May 9th, 2009Your work is inspiring! You’ve got some real talent! I’ve been doing portraits with a friend but have always wanted to try some of the more artistic stock photos such as the work you’ve done here.