Photo Rebel

Me and my buddy Graham grabbed our cameras one night to go experimenting with colour temperature. Seeing some of Damien Lovegrove’s results (link), we thought we’d do our own version…

We setup an umbrella to bounce the flash across the whole scene. Another flash gelled up to colour correct the subject. And a third flash to add  a kick light (also gelled up).

This was the scene with just the main bounce flash in the umbrella to hand grenade the area with light. You can see why we need a kick light on the right side of the image.

This was the final image when we added all 3 flashes.

We set the camera to a tungsten white balance, main flash in the umbrella, 2nd flash gelled with a CTO gel, 3rd flash with a yellow gel. We did have quite a few problems in getting all flashes to trigger reliably. So I guess we’ll have to get the new TTL Pocket Wizards and go on another Lovegrove workshop 🙂 If your interested in knowing more about colour temperature, you can search for it on Google or you can read a Lovegrove article (link).

Changed the position of the third flash and took the scene from another perspective.

Here are some of the other frames we took at the location.

Aperture Priority mode, ISO 800, 24mm, +1EV, 1/30 sec, F4. Taken on a monopod.

Aperture Priority mode, ISO 800, 80mm, +1EV, 1/30 sec, F4. Taken on a monopod.

Manual mode, ISO 200, 24mm, 1/60 sec, F5.6. Used a shoot through umbrella with flash.

Manual mode, ISO 200, 28mm, 1/60 sec, F5.6. Shoot through umbrella with flash.

Obviously, all of Graham’s images contain me as the model!