Off Camera Flash / Portrait of Rock Guitarist Outdoors

An early morning environmental portrait session in the Eastern Sierra foothills. Our photo workshop group hooked up with a couple friends....NBC employees on a photo vacation, themselves.
Our victim / subject is Robbie, and he was very cooperative, given the temperature and early shoot time for this demo.
My good friend, and excellent photographer, Craig Wolf, can be seen holding one of the battery powered, slaved flash units.

There was no real reason for this photo session, other than most of us are really just big kids at heart, and wished that WE could play a guitar.....well, Robbie can. You just can't hear it.....the electricity was turned off in the rock that we plugged into.

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[wondnaereh]

What are you using to trigger your flashes? Is that a pocket wizard? also what are the soft boxes called? I want those they look awesome! I notice you got the shadow of the hair light guy in the background. Great shoot great video, you make me want shoot outdoors!!! Now if it would just stop raining. Your infor will be much appreciated. Thank again!

[dongale1352]

thanx for the nice comments. the triggers are Elinchrom Skyports....very small. and the boxes ate Lastolite EZ Boxes....both ar available thru any Bogen or Manfrotto dealer. great and depenable gear.....don

[ceccodrum]

Thanks for this video! What is that kind of viewer that the photographer use to look camera display @ 4.43?

[dongale1352]

Hi,

It's a Hoodman Loupe 3.0....absolutely indispensible for outdoor shooting.....don

[apodo360]

thanks for sharin'

i wish i was closer to covina to take your class

[dongale1352]

thanx....stop by the school sometime, as my guest. My clas is on Wenesday nite 7-10

[jonnyweston]

the shot at 4:48 could be made to be a lot better if you photoshopped (clone tool ) the shadow of the guy holding the flash on a pole out of the image, from just to the right of the upper neck / head of the guitar!

Good stuff though!

[nglstudios]

@jonnyweston  I too could not stop staring at that shadow very distracting..

[YIMMA996TT]

What a waste of time

[darksidehero]

a hair light seem kind of unnecessary. :/

[freestylefilmsinc]

what sort of boxes are they

[redman68au]

what sizes are your softboxes?

[sampreap]

you both look like ur 100 years old

[jonnyweston]

@nglstudios its cause the contrast between the shadow and the bright sun on the stone is so much greater than the contrast anywhere else in the image, thats wht its the first thing that catches your eye I think IMHO.

[sportphotoagency]

Hi,

Very good video. But i have a question about the photojacket that you wear.

The black one. Where can a buy it? I am looking for sometime for a photojacket.

Please let me know.

Regard Erwin Otten

The Netherlands

[jordanofoz]

very useful outdoor videos, thanks.

I was thinking: what kind of poles do you use to hand-hold the ezyboxes with flashes on? I used a monopod but your's look a lot lighter and compact.