Well, there are certainly times I wished I had the power of a huge studio flash system to light a bit of a scene, but in any event it couldn't have worked for this guy. I do use fresnel lenses (which concentrate light) on a flash to punch a bit of light into a scene, or highlight eyes, but in this case it's too far, and there would be too many strange shadows driven by lights.
In the original, more of the shadowed ear is visible. If you note the equipment used, a 600 + TC14, you'd realize this guy was a long way away from me, in the top of a big Eucylptus tree. Fortunately the tree was on a hillside, so I was able to get a lower angle view, rather than looking straight up from the bottom of the tree. The exposures were slow, around 1/4 second, as this was shot at sunset.
Artie if you ever do read my comments, you should know me by now, I have alot of fun, coz for some reason I keep singing Rod Stewart's song "Every picture tells a story"..Anyway, I don't know that much about studio equipment, my son (again) is looking into it for me and I was thinking just by the numbers that the 1000 strobe coulda been used on the left ear. Well, I don't really know that because I don't know what this equipment is, I just thought it sounded like a big light.
To Steve: He is a cutie. And a light probably coulda helped on the left side.
Debbie I was teasing Steve..stems from a discussion we had on the live session the other night where Steve was commenting on taking everything outside and shooting it...So I was suggesting he did this shot in the studio with 503 strobes at 1000w/s each....or that I would have shot his famous Volcano image in the studio with strobes...
ok Steve very nice image...but this was done with studio lights...3x 1000w/s strobes in softboxes camera right and the sky was iluminated with 500 speedo's strobes @ 1000w/s each on bare bulb......
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