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Deathfist – Promoshooting

Daniel — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:00:19 +0000

I met with the Band Deathfist pretty early during the day with the sun high in the sky. I found a corner in an old parking lot with some nice worn down doors, that made a great background. Do to the fact that it was an public holiday there weren’t a lot of people around as we were shooting and we had the space for ourself. Halfway in the set this changed though and a guy came in to change the tires of his car with the stereo turned up loud. This was fine, as long as he played Rammstein, but after a while he changed to Après Ski Hits. Luckily we were about done at that point and could leave.

Shooting Notes
With the sun high in the sky, I had to get the Band close to the garage doors to get them at least at bit into the shadow, but still left parts of their upper bodies backlight by the sun. Do to this I just used two flashes on this shoot.I was using one 43 inch umbrella from the front as a main and another speedlite from the left side used as a rimlight. The other rim was supplied by the sun. I was shooting at ISO 100, 1/250 of a second and an aperture between f5.6 to f8. I had to dial the power of the flashes pretty high to get the exposure right and still work against the sun. I wasn’t really able to overpower the sun and underexpose the sky as much as I wanted and mostly used the flashes to get some light in the faces and eyes of the Band and set some highlights in the back.

Deathfist - Promoshooting

Kept in Forlorn – Promoshooting

Daniel — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:34:53 +0000

As we went out to shoot the Promos for Kept in Forlorn, Wuppertal seemed to be thrown back into the ice age. Next to it being terribly cold, there was snow all over the place, so we had to find a couple of spots, that had a roof over them.

Shooting Notes
Even though we were shooting at two different places, the setup was pretty much the same for both locations. I was shooting the groupshots with a four flash setup. The main was a 60cm Ebay Softbox camera right, the fill was a shoot through umbrella camera left and behind the Band left and right, just out of the frame, a bare flash as rimlights. Do to the fact, that it was later in the day, I was able to shoot the main at 1/4 power, the fill about 1 1/2 stops darker, and the rimlights at 1/8 power. Camera Settings were ISO 100 at a shutterspeed of 1/250 and an aperture of f5.6. I was shooting this set with the Canon 40d and the EF 10-22 for most parts.
The single Portraits were lit also with a four flash setup, but arranged differently. The main was the 60cm Softbox again, this time boomed over the head of the subject, a flash with a shoot through umbrella camera left as fill, a flash with a grid on the face as a hard contrast light and a bare flash as hairlight directly behind.

Kept in Forlorn - Promoshooting

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Tina, Daniel – Portraitshooting

Daniel — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:37:25 +0000

Lately I’m starting to work more and more with my flash off camera. This here is the result of a shooting I did with two of my good friend Tina and Daniel. Even though both are not used to having their picture taken, it all went pretty smooth and with two faces like that you can’t get it wrong. I just love the look Daniel got with his dreadlocks, that by itself makes the picture worth taking (you should have seen him before he got the Dreads… puh).

Shooting Notes
The shooting was done Strobist style, because we got into some back alleys and onto the tracks of an old abandoned Trainstation. I can’t help myself, but the look of those old lost places makes the garbage you have to climb over to get there so much more bareable.
I was shooting with my Canon 40d, the 24-70 and the 70-200. We used one to three flashes (Nikon Sb-80dx) on manfrotto nano stands. Most of the time I went with a 16 inch Softbox as main and a bare flash as rimlight. On the singles I just used the Softbox and boomed it over either Daniel or Tina. Using rimlight wasn’t possible because they stood in front of a small wall with a 150 feet drop at the other side. The Pics in the alley (see the leadpicture) were done with the Softbox as main, the rimlight and this time I also added a flash with an umbrella as fill.

Portrait - Tina, Daniel