Fencing Coaches
Thursday, January 28th, 2010As part of the website creation process for my fencing clubs new site I’ve taken several head shots of the coaches. It’s the first time I’ve used a 3 light setup (having just picked up another 580 EX II while back home), and it wasn’t as difficult as I was expecting. I think the trick is just to add one light at a time until everything looks the way you’d imagined. The setup shot is here, where the tripod in the middle is where I had the subject stand.
In this case I wanted to use the colour of the walls in our gym to add a warm, orange-ish background and use a fairly fast shutter speed to kill any ambiant light and make the rest of the image darker. In this way I could get an orange/black look that would match the colour scheme of the website and I’m quite happy with the results.
A couple of examples are here, and the rest are in the gallery.