Skateboard shoot

set up key light 1-1 fill light 1-2
10m f11 iso 500 sp 200


set up lights 2 at 45 to subjet on 1-1



Example of work with Medium Format film and studio flash within sports photography.

In this photograph, I have set one key light at a 90 degrees angle to the camera. I did set up another flash at 180 degrees but the slave did not respond. However, I am quite happy about this lack of response as I did not get the timing right for the skateboarder to block out the flashgun and this would have created dramatic backlighting which would have been most effective. This is rather difficult, nevertheless, as I used a waist level view finder which is very tricky to operate as everything appears in reverse. This is due to the correction plate mirror which would normally be found on most reflex view windows??? for this corrects the image and puts it in the right way.
SP 250 F Stop 8 Key light 1 over 1 Mets Flash Fill in Light 1 over 4



Here is a good example of using 2 wireless flashes which did synchronize in time
SP 250 F Stop 11 Key Light 1 over 1 Mets Flash Fill in Light 1 over 2

As you can see here, due to the flash not responding in time, I had to shoot over an exposed negative which may have resulted in image quality loss but due to the high aperture and the low light conditions, the only information that was transmitted in that 100th of a second was the intense light from the floodlights


flim 120

250s iso 500 f6 Flash on camera set at 1-4
10mm
I did some post production work on this completely changing the lighting
and putting it through an artistic filter on stencil on CS3


250s iso1000 Due to the amount of light and the higher ISO one may lose quality due to the grains but as it is correctly exposed - not under-exposed one does not see the grain coming through which I have noticed on under-exposed shots For this photograph I used one wireless flash at 40 degrees angle to subject 1 to 1
sp 250 F8

The photographs above are in the same style as Lee Jay's work below
. I tried to photograph the skateboard as close as possible to my lens to make the shot unusual and exciting.

by lee J

he says Globe Bowl Bash, Burnley, May 2006 (IIRC). I was always stoked that this got run as I thought I'd messed it up (plus it's a stupid angle haha). The SQ-Ai has about 90% viewfinder so when I shot this, and Rob came closer than I was expecting, his head and arm were chopped off completely in the finder.

These photographs were taken on a 30D with a 10 ml fish eye at 250 with a wireless flash for detailed shadowing and lighting and helped to create a high aperture as I used up to F16

This photo of Tom Harrison above was taken by me with one wireless flash but it is poor quality due to the lack of available light and I should have used more lighting.


the photo by Stephen King is by at the same place and the same skater Tom Harrison
the Senior Photographer of document mag Stephen King
he used 2 wireless flash and 5d 15mm fish eye at 250s

by Stephen King
by Stephen King

photo of Tom Harrison by Sam Ashly Photo Editor/Senior Photographer of Document skateboarding magazine. 6X6 Hasselblad 205tcc 30mm fish eye
with 2 wireless flash

i took the idea of light and shoot it in the same way whith 2 wireless flash
one at 1-1 at the side for the key light see shadow and one at 1-4 facing the stairs
2 get the same results
30d 10mm fish eye 250 f16

photos of Tom Harrison below by me with one wireless flash

30d 10mm fish eye 250s f16 wireless flash 1-1

30d 18mm 250s f8 wireless flash 1-2

30d 10mm fish eye 250s f14 1-2