I posted this elsewhere, but thought to add to the S2 image bank on my favorite forum of them all ... thanks to Guy and Jack!
Okay, so I'm shooting a wedding which has a few planned location shots split into two times during the day... location: Michigan Student Union, downtown Ann Arbor, MI.
First are some afternoon Bridal fashion type shots on the Art Museum's steps across the street ... when we get there the sun is blasting the background with dappled light hot spots and the steps are in deep shade. I'm using the S2 and 70mm mounted to a Kirk Grip, Profoto AIR radio on grip handle connected with a PC cord to trigger a 600B AIRs strobe. 27" Profoto gold tint Octa mounted on a mobile boom arm. SF58 in the hot-shoe with a Graslon Prodigy diffuser.
I manually under-expose for the background, and hit the foreground subject with the strobe camera left. Camera is in portrait orientation so I rotate the S2 to the right to place the fill more to the right side of the image. Hard to tell that powerful strobe light was used on these ... I was delighted with the natural looking way the S2 renders subtile light. It was more than I expected given what it looked like to the eye.
This is a perfect example as to why I want the leaf shutter S lenses that shoot to 1/1000 sync ... I would have much preferred to shoot this moving subject at a higher shutter speed than 1/90 or 1/125.
The second mini session after dinner is running late and I'm going to be running out of light by the time we get to a few planned shots. Anticipating this is the reason I brought along the Profoto 600B AIR in the first place.
The original 2nd location (U of M Law Quad in Ann Arbor, MI) is inexplicably locked up and we can't get access ... sun is just about gone now ... we bustle down the street to a giant modern sculpture (by Calder I think), and do the key shot for the day ... by then in the dark : -(
So dark, the S2 with 70mm is struggling to focus ... we turn on the wimpy 50 watt modeling light and wham! the S2 nails focus immediately over and over. I had to shoot these at 1/30 shutter to pick-up the dim ambient, so I used a monopod with a RRS flip head ... only a few exposures showed any slight motion @ 100% ... the S2 loves the Mono-pod!
Client is the daughter of a lighting tech I know. I delivered the prints yesterday and they were stunned by the quality of the large display images (the crushed little jpegs here simply do not do them justice). I mean they were jaw dropping, speechlessly STUNNED and delighted. Good thing too, he has two other unmarried beautiful daughters ...
All in a day's work.
-Marc
Okay, so I'm shooting a wedding which has a few planned location shots split into two times during the day... location: Michigan Student Union, downtown Ann Arbor, MI.
First are some afternoon Bridal fashion type shots on the Art Museum's steps across the street ... when we get there the sun is blasting the background with dappled light hot spots and the steps are in deep shade. I'm using the S2 and 70mm mounted to a Kirk Grip, Profoto AIR radio on grip handle connected with a PC cord to trigger a 600B AIRs strobe. 27" Profoto gold tint Octa mounted on a mobile boom arm. SF58 in the hot-shoe with a Graslon Prodigy diffuser.
I manually under-expose for the background, and hit the foreground subject with the strobe camera left. Camera is in portrait orientation so I rotate the S2 to the right to place the fill more to the right side of the image. Hard to tell that powerful strobe light was used on these ... I was delighted with the natural looking way the S2 renders subtile light. It was more than I expected given what it looked like to the eye.
This is a perfect example as to why I want the leaf shutter S lenses that shoot to 1/1000 sync ... I would have much preferred to shoot this moving subject at a higher shutter speed than 1/90 or 1/125.
The second mini session after dinner is running late and I'm going to be running out of light by the time we get to a few planned shots. Anticipating this is the reason I brought along the Profoto 600B AIR in the first place.
The original 2nd location (U of M Law Quad in Ann Arbor, MI) is inexplicably locked up and we can't get access ... sun is just about gone now ... we bustle down the street to a giant modern sculpture (by Calder I think), and do the key shot for the day ... by then in the dark : -(
So dark, the S2 with 70mm is struggling to focus ... we turn on the wimpy 50 watt modeling light and wham! the S2 nails focus immediately over and over. I had to shoot these at 1/30 shutter to pick-up the dim ambient, so I used a monopod with a RRS flip head ... only a few exposures showed any slight motion @ 100% ... the S2 loves the Mono-pod!
Client is the daughter of a lighting tech I know. I delivered the prints yesterday and they were stunned by the quality of the large display images (the crushed little jpegs here simply do not do them justice). I mean they were jaw dropping, speechlessly STUNNED and delighted. Good thing too, he has two other unmarried beautiful daughters ...
All in a day's work.
-Marc