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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 830457" data-attributes="member: 53455">My own personal favorite chapel (2017)This is my favorite pre–Romanesque (or early Romanesque) chapel, built around Year 1000 and standing obstinately on its lonely hilltop since then, facing innumerable sunsets for over a millennium... I have photographed it many times; this time, I planned the shoot with the help of the PhotoPills application and went on the right day at the right time. Luckily, it was a clear evening. I lit the apse with a Phottix Indra500 studio strobe high up on a light stand. There was some wind that evening, and I had to use a heavy sandbag to stabilize the stand, as I was also using a large octabox (ideal to catch any breeze and topple the whole thing) to soften the light. I ended up using a radio remote to trigger the camera while I was holding the light stand for extra stability!Nikon D810, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Mix of ambient and single strobe lighting, single exposure.[ATTACH=full]416701[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 830457, member: 53455"] [B]My own personal favorite chapel (2017)[/B] This is my favorite pre–Romanesque (or early Romanesque) chapel, built around Year 1000 and standing obstinately on its lonely hilltop since then, facing innumerable sunsets for over a millennium... I have photographed it many times; this time, I planned the shoot with the help of the PhotoPills application and went on the right day at the right time. Luckily, it was a clear evening. I lit the apse with a Phottix Indra500 studio strobe high up on a light stand. There was some wind that evening, and I had to use a heavy sandbag to stabilize the stand, as I was also using a large octabox (ideal to catch any breeze and topple the whole thing) to soften the light. I ended up using a radio remote to trigger the camera while I was holding the light stand for extra stability! Nikon D810, Nikkor 19mm, ƒ/4 PC-E tilt-shift lens, manual focus. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. Mix of ambient and single strobe lighting, single exposure. [ATTACH type="full"]416701[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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