ISO: 100 f/8.0 shutter speed: 4 seconds
ISO: 100 f/11.0 shutter speed: 4 seconds
ISO: 100 f/11.0 shutter speed: 4 seconds
This is what we plan to do for ATPI school portfolio team. Since I had never done this before, we decided we needed to practice before we go, because when we are there Smith is not allowed to help us. This is a series to show how they slowly got better. In the first picture, it is still not dark enough outside and Rush was not still enough. We also changed the aperture to f/11 to get rid of more ambient light. The middle picture is better, but still not great; Rush moved making her blurry. The last is the best, still not competition worthy, but this was a practice; it was never meant to be competition worthy. Rush did a very good job at staying still in this one, you wouldn't be know that the exposure was 4 seconds long by just looking at her. There also are some nice streaks from the cars behind her.
In all, we were using 4 flashes, but one of those was just being used to set others off and wasn't part of the exposure. We were using a 580 for the main light which was in front of her. For the other 2 lights we used Alien Bees, the 400 watt ones. In the first picture you can see where the alien bees were placed. They were being used as rim lights so Rush wouldn't disappear into the dark, black sky. The 580 was so we can see the front of her. In the last picture you can see the other 430 that was being used to set off the alien bees. Yes, the actual flash was going off, but the power was so low that it didn't affect the picture. To set up the power on all the flashes, we used a light meter. We set the meter at ISO: 100 and shutter speed 1/250. We did 1/250 because we were just worried about getting Rush exposed and the actual 4 second exposure was going to be for the background. Rush then held the meter and we did one flash at a time. The flash in front we wanted metered at f/8.0 so we kept moving it up and down until we got that. We wanted the rim lights to be a higher power, like around f/9.0 so they would show up. If they were the same power, you wouldn't be able to see them, they had to be higher so she wouldn't blend in with the background. We kept having to move them closer and ended up having to turn them on full power to get f/9.0 when we had the grids on them. The battery we were using though was starting to run low, so we had to take the grids off so we could turn the power down. Taking the grids off changes how much light is coming out by a lot.
We started off using the MiniMa, and then switched to a 17-50mm and moved a lot closer when we switched lenses. We turned it horizontal so the car streaks would show up more, and I definitely like how it looks a lot better horizontal vs. vertical.
For our actual competition at ATPI, we haven't made a final decision on what we are going to do, but we are going to use this technique. We are going to maybe use Sydney as our model, but we haven't figured out what we want her wearing yet or how we are going to make her look different in each picture. We will come up with something really neat eventually though. Well at least I sure hope so. I am very excited about ATPI, and we better execute this plan extremely well.
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