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 :)