Flash technique 1 - turning daylight into night

Flash technique 1 - turning daylight into night, a photo by Andrew Scott Clarke on Flickr.

Flash technique 1 - turning daylight into night

Update for the Blog, thought i would share a bit of flash technique and how to create dramatic daytime pictures..... well, dramatic lol.

This photo is taken in afternoon light unfortunately the sun wasnt shining or it would have totally added to the effect, I will post one when i get the chance so you can see how cool this technique looks with the sun shining.

What i'm basically trying to do here is make the light look like evening light when you get those lovely cold blues. To acheive this i've turned the WB down all the way in the D700 to 2500k to basically turn everything blue, to make sure the subject is not blue i have used a CTO gel on the flash heads to balance out the WB on the subject (my flash's was three SB-900's on a lastolite tri-flash with Full CTO gels.)

Now to dim the image and keep a shallow depth of field i have had to high speed sync the flashes in this case to 1/3200 of a sec at f2.8 (we can sync all the way up to 1/8000 if we need to on really bright days, this gives the image its dramatic stance. I fired the remotes from the D700's on board flash in commander mode.

This technique works amazingly well on wedding shoots when you want to acheive something a little different, especially with the sun shining and a little flair :)

Hope this was informative for you :)

Day 172-365 - Typical

Day 172-365 - Typical, a photo by Andrew Scott Clarke on Flickr.

A Typical english Village with Typical Red telephone box, this photo is an example of how to use extreme wide angle lenses, This is at 15mm, the trick with wide angle lenses is to get close, not to get it all in!.

Day 168-365 - Blubell wood Charity Golf Tournement

Day 168-365 - Blubell wood Charity Golf Tournement, a photo by Andrew Scott Clarke on Flickr.

Day 168-365 - Blubell wood Charity Golf Tournement

Sorry for the delay in uploads but i have been taking the pics, just not managed to upload so here we go, one from saturdays Golf Tournement for the Bluebell wood Charity

I used the 70-200 on the D200 to get an effective 300mm focal range so i could keep a bit of distance

Day 163-365 - The Real Thing

Day 163-365 - The Real Thing, a photo by Andrew Scott Clarke on Flickr.

Day 158-365 - Old Blackberry Photo Re-Edit

Day 158-365 - Old Blackberry Photo Re-Edit, a photo by Andrew Scott Clarke on Flickr.

Day 158-365 - Old Blackberry Photo Re-Edit

Instead of a new photo tody ive decided to see what i can do with an old camera phone photo, this one was taken with a Blackberry 8900 (3.2mp), it is of my old car (hich i do miss but ponly covered 6000 miles in it in the seven years i owned it!. thats how practical it was - and forget transporting any camera gear in it!.

Just goes to show that a simple camera phone is effective under limited circumstances.