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Saturday, 24 June 2006 00:00 |
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Here’s my Shaman statue. He sits on my office window ledge bringing me luck every day. When I saw him in the shop, the assistant there told me that everyone was afraid of it. I think he’s full of atmosphere and misunderstood by everybody. People probably think dark things when they see him, but I see him doing good work for his tribe. I hope my attempts to photograph him do him justice; - after all he oozes atmosphere and I’m sure he’s alive.
I mounted him on a Marshal guitar amplifier, with soft light coming in from the window 90º from the left. I then set up the camera on a tripod, using a 400 mm lens between f11 and F5.6. To the right at 45º from the camera I set up the quantum flash (radio controlled), in manual mode running at 1/32 power. The exposure was set based on the ambient light at about 2.5 seconds and the flash just eliminating the shadows. This was the first time I had set out to deliberately use full manual control, exposing for the ambient light and filling in with the flashgun and mounted soft box.
To take the images I set the 10 second timer on the camera and hand held the Quantum flashgun and soft box. The 10 seconds on the timer allowed me to run to the subject (which using a 400 mm lens was quite some distance). I reversed the solar disk reflector for the black background.
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