Tuesday, April 6, 2010

OCF Week 5 - Half Moon Bay

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I think this is the 5th OCF self portrait I've taken...  I can't remember, it's been so long between portraits.  Anyways, two in a row - pretty awesome.

So this time around, it was raining pretty hard and I was starting to think about different shots to try indoors.  But the weather cleared out and there were some clouds in the sky so I thought I'd make the most of it by driving over to Half Moon Bay to try and catch the sunset and snap some pics.  After arriving did I realize the clouds were long gone.  But we found a beach and setup for some quick shots.  The sun was so bright that I initially started popping my flash at full power.  But as the sun went down, flash was turned down to 1/2 power and eventually to 1/4 power.  So here I am watching the sun get swallowed by the ocean.:




Strobist, one bare flash only(SB-24) camera right at 1/2 power.  I got some rim light from... well, from the sun.


Special thanks to Jason for holding my busted light stand

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1 comment:

  1. Yup, top one rocks. Now just put a girl in the picture and it would sell. ;)

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