Comments on: Photographing the Myrtle Beach Pelicans Baseball Team

By: Matt Lucas

Matt Lucas — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:38:00 +0000

Thats a poor and un-educated reply, we know its to cut ambient but as the photographer has himself said it is not the standard practice for cutting ambient as when you up your f stop you make you strobes work harder and can introduce diffraction into the image along with the fact that the hyperfocal distance he has achieved would have also been achieveable at a wider apperture..

The educated and correct answer (as supplied by the photographer) was that he thought the canon topped out at 100th so i imagine he used 1/80th to guarntee no shutter shadowing in the image.

Smart ass answers that contain as few words as yours are almost always not helpful.

By: John Afravi

John Afravi — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 05:28:00 +0000

Nice, thanks! I’m currently running 3 Einsteins in my setup. I usually run one Einstein and beauty dish for outside shots as it’s more mobile, but I might bring out a second one this weekend for my shoot.

By: Ron Sanchez

Ron Sanchez — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:41:00 +0000

nice

By: Nathan Cain

Nathan Cain — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:52:00 +0000

I thought it was the Myrtle Beach Mermen. Kenny F’n Powers!

Kidding aside, really good stuff. The old wood backed dugout on those last 2 looks awesome.

By: Bryan Petty

Bryan Petty — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:30:00 +0000

I always thought that your F-Stop would control your subject exposure when using external lighting? So if they were trying to cut ambient light wouldn’t they need shutter speed to be faster, as that has the effect on ambient light? Not sure what’s goign on here myself. Very curious though, seems like something to be learned here.

By: Milton Morris

Milton Morris — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:56:00 +0000

Hi John,

Sorry I forgot to answer your question with my other reply. I used White Lightning x3200′s http://www.paulcbuff.com/x3200.php .

Thanks!

Milton

By: Milton Morris

Milton Morris — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:38:00 +0000

Hey! Thanks so much for the kind words. Yes, the 1/80 at f/22 was just to kill the ambient light. I could (and maybe should) have used a faster sync speed (for some reason I thought the 5dII only went up to 1/100 flash sync). As a few have suggested, I certainly didn’t need the depth of field. Might have been better to try something with a more shallow depth of field.

On a side note, that’s what I used to love about shooting with a Hasselblad – syncs at any speed. On the other hand, before that, I used to shoot with a Pentax67 with a sync speed of 1/30. Talk about having to shoot outside at f/22 all the time – ha!

As far as the processing goes, nothing too special. I warmed up the images, but then desaturated them (in Lightroom). Also, a healthy dose of curves and a some high pass sharpening.

Thanks again for your comments and suggestions. Let me know if you have any other questions.

By: Wouter van der Linde

Wouter van der Linde — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:16:00 +0000

To cut the ambient light..

By: John Afravi

John Afravi — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:50:00 +0000

Great work! You were really able to drop the ambient. What type of strobes were used here?

By: Andrew Griswold

Andrew Griswold — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 03:03:00 +0000

Loving the deep shadows and detail. Making the best of your surroundings is a great inspiration to always be on your toes in a shoot. Looking to possibly hooking up with the Dayton Baseball team to photograph them next year. Gotta love having an Uncle as the head coach! Great work!