{"id":1253,"date":"2009-07-07T23:42:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T03:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetneil.com\/tangents\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2021-01-28T23:54:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T03:54:33","slug":"nyc-photo-sessions-sarah-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/nyc-photo-sessions-sarah-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC photo sessions &#8211; Sarah &#038; Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/5493068\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1>New York photo session &#8211; Sarah &amp; Mark<\/h1>\n<p>I have already posted several images from the extended photo session with Sarah and Mark &#8211; but here is the epic video.\u00a0\u00a0 The intention with these photo sessions was to expand\u00a0Sarah&#8217;s portfolio as much as we could.<\/p>\n<p>We started off at Coney Island, doing a session with Sarah and Mark at the edge of the beach with Sarah in swimwear .. and from there it went into more of a lifestyle shoot with the two of them on the boardwalk. \u00a0Later on we had Sarah run towards the camera in sportswear.\u00a0 But we rained out with a massive thunderstorm rolling in over New York.\u00a0 We picked up the photo session again in Battery Park.\u00a0 Much of this session and onwards weren&#8217;t caught on video since the-other-Neil, who assisted me, had to stay with the van and drive around looking for parking while we continued with the shoot.\u00a0 There is a short section though, showing some of the Battery Park session.\u00a0 From there we moved up to Times Square to photograph a very glamorous looking Sarah in evening wear in Times Square.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully all of this will be a great view of the approach during a photo session, and how there is no single static way of doing things.\u00a0 Various techniques are used; the lighting too\u00a0is varied; all\u00a0to give\u00a0a wide range to the look of the final images ..<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For the photos in swimwear, I used the the <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/recommends\/profoto-b1-500-ws-airttl-flash-bh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Profoto AcuteB 600R lighting kit<\/a> (B&amp;H) with 2\u00d73 Profoto softbox, as mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/overpowering-the-sun-with-flash-photography\/\">the previous post<\/a>.\u00a0 For the rest of the day I used a Q-flash in a softbox, which was either held up on a monopod, or placed on a lightstand.\u00a0 Some of the images were with only available light.\u00a0 So it was a mix of lighting equipment, and a mix of techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, in the video clip where I mention the test shot, that is without flash so I have an idea of what my basic ambient exposure would look like. And that is the image that appears on the video &#8211; the test shot without flash.<\/p>\n<p>From the swimwear sequence:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/sarah-r\/Sarah-R-0073-final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nSarah, from the sequence posted in a previous article.<br \/>\n1\/250th @\u00a0f3.5 @ 200 ISO<br \/>\nThe background is the approaching storm.\u00a0 Lighting is with the Q-flash in a softbox off to my right, held up high by my assistant.\u00a0 And some\u00a0Photoshop fairy dust to make the image pop even more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/sarah-r\/Sarah-R-0646.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nWith the next image of Sarah running towards the camera, the lighting had to be even more mobile. As you could see in the video clip, Mark was\u00a0running alongside Sarah, holding up the\u00a0Q-flash in\u00a0the softbox.\u00a0 Quite a feat!\u00a0 He more or less matched her pace, but any change in distance, was mostly compensated for with it being TTL flash.\u00a0 TTL flash should, in theory at least, take into account the change in distance.\u00a0 With Manual flash, any change in distance between the light and the subject would affect the exposure.<br \/>\n1\/250th @\u00a05.6 @ 800 ISO<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/sarah-r\/Sarah-R-0681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nHere I wanted to show an out-take.\u00a0 One of the test shots so that you can see the position of the softbox (on a\u00a0light-stand),\u00a0relative to Sarah.\u00a0 Here the flash was manual again since she remained static in relation to the light source.\u00a0 Manual flash just makes more sense then for consistency of exposure.\u00a0 My settings:\u00a0 1\/250th @ f4 @ 800 ISO.\u00a0\u00a0 The settings were chosen to expose for the background in a way that I felt retained the mood perfectly of the city scene just after a rain storm in the early evening.\u00a0 I pulled the flash power down to give me just enough light in comparison to that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/sarah-r\/Sarah-R-0729.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nAs the sun set, the entire city was bathed in an orange glow.\u00a0 Really beautiful to see.\u00a0\u00a0 1\/125th@ f3.5 @ 800 ISO was just right in my estimation based on my camera&#8217;s meter reading and the LCD preview.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of manual flash though (which would make more sense), I decided on TTL flash\u00a0because I suspected\u00a0the security guards in the area would chase us off the moment they became aware of us.\u00a0 (Turns out I was right.)\u00a0 Shooting with TTL allows me to set up faster than with manual flash.\u00a0 Less consistency between exposures, but the speed of setting up helped me more.\u00a0\u00a0 It is whatever technique is more appropriate at the time, rather than sticking to a dogmatic manual-flash-in-a-softbox approach only.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/sarah-r\/Sarah-R-0845.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nDriving around the corner, I saw\u00a0the entire street scene just bathed in that soft light &#8211;\u00a0a perfect backdrop against which to place Sarah.\u00a0 But in post-processing the image, I ended up preferring this version over the more natural version.\u00a0 My settings: 1\/40th @ f2.8 @ 1600 ISO, handheld.\u00a0 My tripod was in the car, but I couldn&#8217;t set it up in the middle of the (quiet) street.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/machine-gunning-a-photo\/\"> So I used the machine-gun technique to make sure I did get images which were crisply sharp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/sarah-r\/Sarah-R-0853-edit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"668\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nAnd finally we hit Times Square in Manhattan.\u00a0 Here is\u00a0Sarah\u00a0\u00a0in evening dress, still looking strikingly glamorous after a long, long day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/sarah-r\/Sarah-R-1174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1\/250th @ f4 @ 800 ISO \/\/ Nikon D3, Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S<br \/>\nThe lighting\u00a0was with a\u00a0Quantum T5d-R in a softbox; \u00a0TTL flash controlled by Quantum FreeWire system. (When the FreeWire\u00a0works it is great, when it doesn&#8217;t &#8230; it just doesn&#8217;t.)<\/p>\n<p>Sarah and Mark, the two of you were just fantastic to work with.\u00a0 Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>[ For more videos, follow me on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/neilvn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vimeo<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/NeilvanNiekerk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York photo session &#8211; Sarah &amp; Mark I have already posted several images from the extended photo session with Sarah and Mark &#8211; but here is the epic video.\u00a0\u00a0 The intention with these photo sessions was to expand\u00a0Sarah&#8217;s portfolio as much as we could. We started off at Coney Island, doing a session with&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/nyc-photo-sessions-sarah-mark\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more inside&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,17,22,24,31,422,1,43],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[6290,6288,6276,6271,2414,3779,1134,5150,6278,6274,6292,6287,6289,6281,1417,1143,6291,6285,6283,1415],"class_list":{"0":"post-1253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-flash-photography","8":"category-gear","9":"category-general-photography","10":"category-lighting","11":"category-models","12":"category-photo-shoot","13":"category-sarah-raley","14":"category-uncategorized","15":"category-video-clip","16":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50223,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/50223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}