This time it took about one hour just to get to the spot we were going to shoot at. Hammers and tape for the win! Me and Coffe.dk spent some time trying to find an abandoned building but I tell ya, it’s not easy in our city. But we managed to do it and even managed to get inside it. And the place was perfect, more perfect then we ever dreamed about. It was a three story building with about 3.5m to each ceiling. And each floor was like a photostudio itself so we will definately come back to this place and use it to the max.
After some preparations and figuring out what spot we were going to use we went back to the car to get our model. So we went over to the always funny and gorgeous CherryCheek. She packed the car to the max with bags and on the drive to the location we prepared her that this place is rough and kind of creepy. But as a female gaming nerd that wasn´t any problem at all, lol! The only problem was the tiny bridge that was built over this tiny tiny pool of water, she hates, and I mean it, she hates bridges.
We started to place the equipment at the spot meanwhile she was getting herself ready. Since the light outside the window still was kind of bright I hoped that it would make a great window light. But man how wrong I was about that. When shooting flashes towards the window and the model the picture looked so awful that I immediately deleted it from the camera haha! So, how do we solve that problem? No worries, just place a flash mounted to a flashstand with a shoot through umbrella outside the window. Use more power on it then the sun itself, go all in, full power, that will say 1/1 power. It was triggered by a Cactus reciever. Take a test picture and notice that it looked awesome, be happy and go home. Well don´t go home but make the two other flashes ready.
One flash to create a nice back light effect and one flash for some light in front of her. Make her feel secure and then pow pow POW! Done! And did I say that she was dressed in this sexy army dress? Ohh, sorry, but she was.
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikkor 35mm f1,8
Shutter speed: 1/200
Aperture: f5,6
ISO: 100
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Life isnt about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw