Photoshoot in Hyde Park

Jenny Nandwani Nature-58
Originally uploaded by sbalani

So this shot right here is one of my fave's of all the ones ive uploaded so far. I just love the lighting, pose framing, colour! everything about it! Of course now when i look at it I also think of 20 different ways i could have taken the image, different lighting scenarios, different camera angles, etc. and even though this was my first shoot outdoors, in the sun, and was suppossed to be an educational venture into high speed flash photography, I still managed to be reminded of how a simple change of angle or lighting can alter a scene completley despite the model not having moved at all.

Now, as I mentioned earlier shooting in Hyde Park was EXTREMELY experimental for me. I not only had to account for the flash, but in addition i also had to account for the natural light from the sun. In most situation sthe sun would have overpowered my meager flashes (if any of you follow the strobist youll see the lovely setup that Joe Mcnally had for just ONE directional light so as to overpower the sun. Thankfully it was evenign and overcast when i did my shoot, which as like Mcnally says, just makes one very big diffused light! :D. So attempting to use that as my fill in light, i attempted to place my other flashes accordingly to light up the scenes and VOILA!

P.S I also learned another valuable lesson which mcnally emphasizes OVER AND OVER in "the moment it clicks" WEIGH DOWN YOUR STANDS! even the smallest breeze will wreck chaos on your equipment (it was such a teeny weeny breeze taht knocked over my stand and totally killed one of my brollies! :( thankfully it was the cheap one.....i think...)

well hope you enjoyed today's post :) as usual, the rest of my images can be accessed here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbalani/sets/