Shooting it: Rocky Beach Long exposure strobist portrait

Intro

Here are some shots from the type of locations that really make me very excited! For this article I will be doing some long exposure strobist lighting, in order to get some more dramatic look! The model is on a rock and not really able to move too much! Also I am having a making video for the photoshoot, make sure you check it out and also subscribe to my YouTube channel! 

今日もメイキングビデオある写真アップしてますよ！ロケは私の大好きなドラマチックな感じです！今回は昼間にロングシャッタースピードで海の流れも出したかったので、ND-フィルター使っています！下の説明、メイキング映像と出来上がりの写真見てくださいね！

Behind the scenes Video

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Gear

Camera for this shot is Canon 5DM2! And the lens I’m using is Canon 24mm F/1.4! 

My strobes are   Nissin MG8000 and for the past few months I’ve been a hard Nissin user, since the MG8000 never overheats during photoshoot, no matter how much I shoot at high power settings, and believe me I do it a lot!

My triggers are Cactus V6, recently I switched to them from Pocket Wizard, and that was a great decision to make! Using them I can control the flash power of my manual flashes without the need to go and even touch them! 

ND-16 Filter to be able to get long exposure in daytime

機材

カメラは Canon 5DM2 です！このセットで使ってたレンズは Canon 24mm F/1.4, です！

ストロボはNissin MG8000 です！マシンガンストロボはパワーが必要なときにとても大事です！ストロボも結構フル発光で使うことが多いので、純正のストロボだったらオーバーヒートして、しばらく使えなくなることがあります！MG8000は一切暑くなることがないので、撮影に集中できます！

ラジオスレーブはCactus V6です！たった一つのどんなストロボでも、カメラについてるラジオスレーブで、すべてのストロボのパワーを調整できるトリガーです！もうすぐ日本でも発売します！

ND-16 フィルター、それで昼間にロングシャッターできます

Setting shot

Lighting

For this shot I am using 2 bare strobess, the Nissin MG8000, since as you notice from the setup shots it was really hard to use any stands, and accessories!! You can see in the strobist video above how the location actually looks like! ! I’m using the Canon 24mm/1.4 lens this time! For this shot I wanted both, long shutter speed, and shallow depth of field, so in order to achieve that I was using a ND-16 Filter to get the shutter speed as low as 1/4 sec, which created the movement in the sea! I’m triggering my strobes by Cactus V6 triggers, which are really handy if you want to be ale to control your flash power remotely, and in this location that was a really big factor since it was not so easy for me to go and change power settings! Of course I am using a tripod to set the camera!

ライティング

この撮影はは２灯だけで撮影しています！アクセサリーなし、そのロケではアクセサリーを使う余裕がなかったです！使ってるレンズはCanon 24mm F/1.4です！フル開放で撮りたかったのと、ロングシャッタースピードも使いたかったので、ND-16フィルターを使っています！それで、海の流れが出てきてさらにドラマチックに見えます！ラジオスレーブはCactus V6で、無線でストロボのパワーをコントロールできます、この場合にそれがすごく大事なことでした！ストロボはNissin MG8000です！カメラは遅いシャッタースピードのため、三脚においてます！今回はメイキングビデオもあるので、ぜひ見てくださいね！

Final Results

Here are some of of the final images from that day, Model is Yuzuki Aizawa, who is really brave to follow me in such locations!  

In the end

Now, I am preparing a series of new articles on some general topics, let me know which one of them you want to see first, so I get it ready earlier! Also other ideas are welcome too! Here are some of them: Portraits at night / Lens article (I guess 135/2) / Portraits in the rain / Use of gels / Using backlight / One light setups / Shoots with just one umbrella / General shooting portraits / Can cheap lenses make good photos / Swing the camera shots / Using snoots / Shaped bokeh / … or any other idea welcome, post it in the comments, and I will see if I am able to write about it! Also stay tuned for my new blog section starting soon called “Strobist Diary” There I will talk about many of my off-camera flash techniques from basic things to some advanced stuff! 

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