LightningPaul

Two weeks ago there was a bike race in Zeebrugge, the place I live. This young guy was racing hard.


TECH-INFO: this race was the perfect opportunity to test out some Strobist techniques. I wanted to create some cool and strong lighting. With my light stand (I attached a strap) on my back and a couple of speedlight flashes I searched for a fine and quiet place. Around the finish line was it too crowdy. The light stand was set up at the right. I mounted the two speedlights both pointed at the same direction. Both were set on 1/2 power. Full power was not an option because of the recycle time of two seconds or more. I used two of them for extra power, and in case one would fail. They were triggered using the cheap GI triggers (mostly found on eBay). When I was standing seven meters away then almost every time one of GI receivers failed to trigger its speedlight. Perhaps I should look out for some other (more expensive) triggers. In the image above they luckily both worked well. I set the shutterspeed as high as I could to lower the ambient light so it acted as fill light.

In Photoshop I further processed the image. Mainly enhancing contrasts (even of several color separate), darkening the background and adding some corner vignetting.