http://onebrightspot.com/blog/2008/11/03/im-a-winnner/ The Photographic and Life Exploits of Jacob Vorpahl. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:07:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-beta2 http://onebrightspot.com/blog/2008/11/03/im-a-winnner/comment-page-1/#comment-210 How To Save A Life | OneBrightSpot.com- Jacob Vorpahl's Blog Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:54:15 +0000 http://onebrightspot.com/blog/?p=332#comment-210 [...] The location I was shooting at (the church’s school hallways) is kind of narrow for the seperation I needed for the different subjects so I decided I would take the pictures seperately and combine them in post.  The first picture I took was of the students.  I wanted them isolated from all of the different distractions in the hallways but I wanted some of the lockers showing, so I put them all in a tight group against a set of lockers, then I placed an SB800 on a boom almost to the ceiling and to keep the light as tight as necessary I slid a grid on to it (one of the ones I won way back when). [...] [...] The location I was shooting at (the church’s school hallways) is kind of narrow for the seperation I needed for the different subjects so I decided I would take the pictures seperately and combine them in post.  The first picture I took was of the students.  I wanted them isolated from all of the different distractions in the hallways but I wanted some of the lockers showing, so I put them all in a tight group against a set of lockers, then I placed an SB800 on a boom almost to the ceiling and to keep the light as tight as necessary I slid a grid on to it (one of the ones I won way back when). [...]

]]> http://onebrightspot.com/blog/2008/11/03/im-a-winnner/comment-page-1/#comment-171 Creatively explosive fun | OneBrightSpot.com- Jacob Vorpahl's Blog Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:25:31 +0000 http://onebrightspot.com/blog/?p=332#comment-171 [...] The above attempt was the third try.  The two before it were way too blown out so I had to stop down my aperture to f36, then lower the exposure in post processing another stop just to get this.  That little flash is bright!  It’s not bright enough, however, to give a clear shot of all the pieces once it explodes.  To get that, I put an SB800 on a lightstand directly above it, about 5 feet, then zoomed the head all the way in to focus the light.  To do one better, I then put a gridspot on it to make sure it didn’t spill anywhere else.  I wanted it focused completely on the firecracker.  By the way, thanks again to DIYphotography.net for the gridspot. [...] [...] The above attempt was the third try.  The two before it were way too blown out so I had to stop down my aperture to f36, then lower the exposure in post processing another stop just to get this.  That little flash is bright!  It’s not bright enough, however, to give a clear shot of all the pieces once it explodes.  To get that, I put an SB800 on a lightstand directly above it, about 5 feet, then zoomed the head all the way in to focus the light.  To do one better, I then put a gridspot on it to make sure it didn’t spill anywhere else.  I wanted it focused completely on the firecracker.  By the way, thanks again to DIYphotography.net for the gridspot. [...]

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