{"id":4735,"date":"2010-09-12T22:19:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T02:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2021-04-03T22:45:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T02:45:07","slug":"photo-session-modern-gypsies-violin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/photo-session-modern-gypsies-violin\/","title":{"rendered":"photo session – Modern Gypsies – something about a violin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the last in the series of photo sessions<\/a> with the Modern Gypsies<\/a><\/strong> on this day, we ended up here … launching two girls in costume, onto the East River inside a giant ball. It really did make sense. And you may ask yourself, how did we get here? \u00a0Letting the days go by … No, really, how did we get here?<\/p>\n

For this still un-named part of the Modern Gypsies’ act, Michael Saab, envisioned something intriguing. \u00a0The two violinists would enter a party or event, both playing violin while walking inside this giant ball. \u00a0The violins would actually be miked up.<\/p>\n

Photographing this proved challenging. \u00a0Two girls in costume inside a giant ball while playing violin, just seemed too mundane to photograph as is. \u00a0So Michael came up with the idea of launching them inside the ball, onto the East River, whereupon they would then play their violins for the photographs. \u00a0The idea, while intriguing, just seemed too dangerous .. so we opted for a few portraits of Emily and Irene … and then do the photos of them sans violins inside the ball out on the water.<\/p>\n

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Shot with the 70-200mm f2.8 using off-camera flash in a softbox.<\/p>\n

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This bendy photograph was obviously taken with a fish-eye. \u00a0I didn’t quite like the effect …<\/p>\n

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… so I settled on more dynamic portraits using the 14-24mm lens around the 20 to 24mm range.<\/p>\n

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Finally the time had come to take this to the water. \u00a0Michael sealed the girls inside the ball. \u00a0(There’s enough air in there for at least 10 minutes.) \u00a0The ball was inflated with a leaf-blower.<\/p>\n

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And there you have it. Something quite spectacular and unique.
\n(I cloned out the handles and safety rope in Photoshop for this photograph and the one at the top. \u00a0I also removed the hot-spot from the off-camera flash for these two images.)<\/p>\n

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From left to right:
\nEmily, Michael Saab, myself, Jessica-with-the-tood, \u00a0Irene.<\/p>\n

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A few technical details about the photographs:<\/strong><\/p>\n

For this photograph, I was shooting with wireless TTL flash. \u00a0The on-camera Master speedlight had its output disabled, just controlling the Slaved speedlight. \u00a0Jessica was holding up the softbox to my left. The softbox was the Lastolite Ezybox setup again.<\/p>\n

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settings: 1\/250 @ f5.6 @ 100 ISO .. the lens was the 24-70mm f2.8 … off-camera TTL flash.<\/p>\n

For this next image, I had the Slaved flash set to full manual output, since I wanted the most out of the speedlight to match the super-bright background. The softbox was held up to my right-hand side.<\/p>\n

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settings: \u00a01\/250 @ f7.1 @ 100 ISO .. the lens was the 70-200mm f2.8 since I wanted the compression in perspective against the Manhattan skyline.<\/p>\n

Just in case you’re wondering – for the images where Jessica was helping to launch the ball, I held up the softbox on the monopod with my left hand, while shooting with my right-hand.<\/p>\n

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More articles on off-camera flash …<\/a><\/p>\n

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Equipment used during this photo session:
\nNikon D3; \u00a0Nikon 14-24mm f2.8 AF-S<\/a> (B&H);
\nNikon 24-70mm f2.8 AF-S<\/a> (B&H); Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 AF-S II<\/a> (B&H);
\nNikon SB-900<\/a> (B&H); \u00a0Nikon SD-9 battery pack<\/a> (B&H)
\nLastolite EZYBOX 24×24 softbox<\/a> (B&H)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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