Shooting it: Shadow of Music

I’m starting to write some series of articles about how I take some of my photos, with behind-the-stage information & photos, as well as explanation of the setups I’m using and other information about locations etc. Here is the first article about one of my favorite photos I’ve taken called “Shadow of Music. I took this photo in a hot summer day of 2010.

I guess I need to mention that the location is in Kyoto, Nanzen-ji Temple, a great location for interesting shots, of course if you take permission from the staff before you shoot, otherwise you might have to finish earlier!
So the idea I had with this shot was to get some nice shadow of her on the wall while she was playing the saxophone, I wanted the shadow to show everything. We were pretty lucky to find this wall, that is not straight 90 degrees angle, but was a but leaned, which helped getting a bit more interesting shape in the shadow.
The shadow… well, this is one of the easiest light setups you can imagine, just one light! The difficult is after that to place the light properly, so you get the shape of the shadow the way you want it, here are some shots of the setup and the location!

Light modifier:

I’ve been using a DIY grid-spot, or maybe better call it a snoot, have a few photos of it under. As I said I’m using one flash only, my Canon 580EXII, triggered by Pocket Wizard II Plus. The lens I’m using for the shot is the Sigma AF 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC, click here to see some more photos I have with that lens!

Here is the final image from the shoot, if you click on it you will be forwarded to the photograph in my Flickr account, with some more additional information about it as well as all the setup shots included in it!

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