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A Box of Soft Light…

by on Dec.16, 2011, under Life, Photography

We had our annual Christmas Carols at our local school recently and whilst there I took lots of photos of all our children and the various activities (playing instruments, singing, playing, etc) they were up to.

Around sunset/twilight I took my camera with the 50/1.4 onboard, my SB900 speedlight and a 24″ speedlight softbox out onto the oval and let any of the kids who were interested have a play. I took the photos and the kids posed and others held the softbox and strobe which I remotely wirelessly triggered using the glory of Nikon’s CLS (Creative Lighting System).

I shot in manual and underexposed the sky (using a fast shutter speed – 1/200, 1/125, etc) and a wideish aperture for a soft background look and let TTL have it’s way.

Lots of very nice photos were to be had – here is one of my daughters which turned out OK

NIKON D7000 + 50.0 mm f/1.4 @ 50 mm, 1/250 sec at f/4, ISO 100


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