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This post was going to be something entirely different – a mini-review of an Elinchrom Ranger Quadra Set that I got hold of to try out. \u00a0But a key part was missing. \u00a0Without the Skyport that allows you to control the output of the unit from the camera itself, a review would be less useful. Having booked Priscilla as our model already, and my friend Richard along to assist, we decided to just go ahead and have fun with a photo-shoot anyway …<\/p>\n
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So I took my Profoto AcuteB 600R kit<\/a> (B&H), along with the Profoto beauty dish<\/a> (B&H). \u00a0Enough juice to over-power the sun. \u00a0I thought of a cool place in Brooklyn to do the photo shoot. But then we got \u00a0stuck in merciless traffic en route to Brooklyn via Manhattan, and the sky became progressively more cloudy. \u00a0So no ‘overpowering of the sun’ to do with a high-powered flash unit. Eventually I decided we’ll just turn towards Jersey City and give up hope on getting to Brooklyn. \u00a0A complete change in plans.<\/p>\n We looked around for something interesting to use as a backdrop along the waterfront in Jersey City .. but with the overcast sky, the light was very even and soft. \u00a0Nothing really grabbed me during the quick test shots I took to see if there was something.<\/p>\n Then I noticed the way that the wall curved along the Path station. That metallic gleam only really stood out with that one section where it curved.<\/p>\n An available light test-shot with Priscilla proved that it would work as a simple but effective backdrop. \u00a0Zooming to a long focal length on the 70-200mm lens, a tight composition gave an interesting, even slightly futuristic, look to the background.<\/p>\n settings: 1\/500 @ f3.5 @ 200 ISO<\/p>\n Now all that was needed was to punch up the light a bit with the lighting kit. \u00a0I used a sock over the beauty dish to create softer light. \u00a0I also wanted the light to be fairly symmetrical. In other words, I wanted even light on Priscilla. \u00a0So I shot nearly in line with the lighting setup.<\/p>\n A bit of direction and explanation …<\/p>\n .. and then we have the final image (which is the one that appeared at the top.)<\/p>\n The final image that I chose to post here, is one where I specifically went for a symmetrical pose and composition. \u00a0The highlighted curve behind her accentuating the central composition.<\/p>\n Final settings: 1\/250 @ f4 @ 100 ISO As you can figure out from the settings in comparison to the available light photograph, this was taken at only 1\/3rd of a stop down from the other image. \u00a0But in the other image, her face was a tad under-exposed already. \u00a0So the flash added somewhere around 2\/3 to a full stop of light to the final image. \u00a0Just enough to give some pop to the photograph.<\/p>\n This way of working is consistent with my usual approach when doing on-location portraits<\/a>. \u00a0The image above was one from the first successful sequence. \u00a0Scouting around some more, and playing around with a few ideas with Priscilla, we eventually ended up with quite a few images in other areas that too worked well.<\/p>\n Equipment used during this photo session:<\/p>\n Nikon D3; \u00a0\u00a0Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S II<\/a> (B&H) progression of an idea during a photo-session This post was going to be something entirely different – a mini-review of an Elinchrom Ranger Quadra Set that I got hold of to try out. \u00a0But a key part was missing. \u00a0Without the Skyport that allows you to control the output of the unit from the camera Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30431,"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":[15,22,24,31],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[13551,13548,6986,13547,13544,13546,1546,13545,13549,13550,3767,13552,2539,6985,2966,13543,13542,1701,1700,13541],"class_list":{"0":"post-4525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-flash-photography","8":"category-lighting","9":"category-models","10":"category-photo-shoot","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525"}],"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=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50421,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions\/50421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/models\/priscilla\/Pris-initial.jpg\")
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\nLighting: \u00a0Profoto AcuteB 600R kit<\/a> (B&H), along with the\u00a0Profoto beauty dish<\/a> (B&H)
\nI used a\u00a0diffuser\u00a0sock<\/a> (B&H) over the beauty dish.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nProfoto AcuteB 600R power pack<\/a> (B&H); \u00a0Profoto beauty dish<\/a> (B&H); \u00a0diffuser\u00a0sock<\/a> (B&H).
\nManfrotto 1004BAC<\/a> (B&H);\u00a0\u00a0Pocket-Wizard Plus II Tranceiver<\/a> (B&H)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"