Bicyclists
I’m working on a project with JNA Advertising and the great guys over at Gizmo for the next couple of weeks that involves a bunch of quick-turn environmental portraits. Last night Tavio and his biking buddies made great subjects and I decided to try the Nikkor 10.5 fisheye with a little off-camera flash. I used the Nikon D300’s pop-up flash in commander mode and dialed it down 3 stops so that it wouldn’t influence the shot. It remotely triggered the SB-600 in my left hand that was cranked up 2 stops. I dialed the camera down 1 stop.
I wanted to overpower the ambient light with the flash to highlight Tavio in the foreground. It all took about as much time as it did to just explain it. The result here has had just a bit of vignetting added but is not too far from being straight out of the camera.
Not sure if you knew this: if you set your pop-up flash to “–” in the D300 commander menu, it won’t effect exposure. Itt will just fire briefly to activate the other flash(es).
Great tip — thanks, Robert! In this case, I did like getting the catch light in the eyes from the pop-up flash but there are times when shutting it off completely would be nice. I’ll give this a try.
Really cool shot! Almost as cool as the dude’s moustache.