Monday, June 30, 2008

Hard Light

Well, I have been getting ready for another Wedding this weekend, but thought I would take couple of pics for myself when my wife mentioned she was washing the dog. It's never easy to get a nice shot when both parties are involved more in the washing than the photography.

I decided to focus I what I could control and that was the light. I setup on Nikon SB-800 on a stand with a pocketwizard and started cracking away. No diffuser in sight. Changing up the aperture (settled on F5) and the shutter (settled on 1/400) so the sunlight was knocked down a little and my subjects were nicely lit.


Over about 15 minutes I took a whole range of shots but this was my favourite. I am still struggling with the hard light mainly because it is so hard, but it certainly adds a new dynamic to the photos.

One single hard light, not difficult to workout the setup yourself. Hope you like the effect.