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Posted on January 21, 2011
Ok, so anything after 4.30pm at the moment is going to require lighting of some sort. This was a cover and spread for an NHS publication about overcoming depression / beating the blues and the location was a football club in Kent with a blue kit strip. It was 7pm, cold, the players were in training for a big match on Saturday and there was a limited amount of time. Magazine and editorial work always requires one eye on a strong image but also empty space for text and smaller images as montages or insets. I had two Canon 580EX speedlights, stands and Pocketwizards for the goal area shots and then went for ST-E2 and a single hand held low down for the other shots. The floodlight group shot had a speedlite behind the players to make the floodlight “travel” a lot further than it really was, and create some nice shadows. ISO 100/200 for high contrast images (f5.6-8 at about 1/80-1/125) and ISO 800 f4.0 1/30 for the remainder).
Posted on January 11, 2011
If you’re interested in booking me for a location family photography session in Faversham, Canterbury or Whitstable please go to timstubbings.co.uk, or for technical comment, please read on! Winter equals low light and shorter hours of available light. It does however create opportunities to continue shooting outdoors. A break in the weather for an hour (ok, there was a bit of drizzle) allowed me to take these family shots of children. The nice people at Canon UK had provided loan kit as my 1D2n was having a new circuit board and mirror assembly fitted, whilst the 70-200L was having a new motor fitted! Outside was about ISO 500 whereas under cover it was cranked higher with a monopod when using the zoom, slightly wider apertures than I would normally like (I like F4). I loved the quality of the light inside the shed – very low but the diffused window acting as a giant softbox. Cloudy skies means great skin tones but absence of direction light – so towards the end of the hour we used off-camera flash, high shutter speeds to kill the ambient and mixing white balance with gels.
