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Moab Man

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Senior Photo shoot.

Great story behind this shot. The rider is graduating this coming 2017. When he was a little kid of 9 or 10 a local pro that had went to this same school said to him how cool it would be to do a tail whip off of the school sign. That little boy grew up riding and remembered the comment all the way through his graduating year. He approached me about photographing it. I told him we could one up this and make it even better doing it at night with the strobes. We accomplished the photo and he shared it with the pro rider. Definitely made his senior year with this photo.

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Roy1961

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Moab Man said:
Senior Photo shoot.

Great story behind this shot. The rider is graduating this coming 2017. When he was a little kid of 9 or 10 a local pro that had went to this same school said to him how cool it would be to do a tail whip off of the school sign. That little boy grew up riding and remembered the comment all the way through his graduating year. He approached me about photographing it. I told him we could one up this and make it even better doing it at night with the strobes. We accomplished the photo and he shared it with the pro rider. Definitely made his senior year with this photo.

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cool shot MM.
 
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Playing with long exposure and a flash for no other reason than we could - so easy to lose track of the fun in playing with a camera. Unfortunately the flash battery died as my guinea pig was just starting to figure it out.

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Moab Man said:
Playing with long exposure and a flash for no other reason than we could - so easy to lose track of the fun in playing with a camera. Unfortunately the flash battery died as my guinea pig was just starting to figure it out.

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Love this! Did you use rear curtain sync for your flash to obtain the shadowed legs on the bench? If not, what type of flash settings did you use?
 
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hark said:
Love this! Did you use rear curtain sync for your flash to obtain the shadowed legs on the bench? If not, what type of flash settings did you use?
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Correct. Rear curtain sync, two second exposure. This was playing and learning towards another shot I want to do. What I learned is I need much brighter constant light to light up my subject prior to the flash.
 
Danno_RIP

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[MENTION=11881]Moab Man[/MENTION], last winter you were talking about the Expodisc for better WB. I was wondering how you felt about it and if you felt it was a good investment.
 
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Danno said:
@Moab Man, last winter you were talking about the Expodisc for better WB. I was wondering how you felt about it and if you felt it was a good investment.
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Danno,

I have been using the ExpoDisc for about four years now. I am absolutely a believer in this this product. I find it can nail the white balance in mixed lighting situations better any other tool in my opinion. While are cameras do have presets for fluorescent, tungsten, etc… those lights and their colors can always very from age, manufacturer, or a whole host of other things.

This tool also serves as an incident meter for portrait work to nail exposure.

I use to build Jeeps and this product is very much like re-gearing the axles on the Jeep. It’s not flashy doing gears like adding big tires or some cool body armor, but at its heart, gears are an absolutely valuable workhorse tool that has big benefits but no flash. That is what the ExpoDisc is to me – a no flash workhorse.

Here is a short video showing it used as an incident meter and setting WB for Canon: https://youtu.be/DHWn3MQ0YYY

The incident meter part applies to Nikons as well, but setting white balance is much easier. For Nikon you set WB to “Pre” then press until the top display of you D7200 start flashing “Pre.” Then you put the ExpoDisc over the lens, hold the camera in front of your subject while pointing the camera back to where you will be shooting, and snap the shutter. The top display will then flash “Good” if the camera got a good reading. When I take a reading I set the camera to the ISO I want and aperture priority with no exposure compensation. That way the shutter will be open as long as needed for a good sample.

Hope this all helps. Feel free to ask me if you have any other questions.
 
Danno_RIP

Danno_RIP

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Thanks so much for the outline and the video. I watched a couple more to make it soak in and I think I will have something new to my list. I also get the gear analogy... I built hot rods and hopped up bikes. It is in the details. Really appreciate this.
 
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