My Respects to Senor Gus
for anyone who doesnt know, i am a golf course superintendent and that job requires me to wear many hats. photographer has become one of them. i now have a picture that i took on the front of the scorecard and all the photos on the website were taken by moi! my boss designs and sells golf clubs. he asked me yesterday to photograph this wedge for a brochure. it was one of the most challenging things i ever did!!!! light, light, light!!!!
set up a makeshift studio in his office. the ambient light kept causing hotspots in various locations on the wedge. i finally took a large piece of cardboard and propped it against the tripod to block all direct ambient light. that was the key!! a black piece of cardboard was used as the bg. used my sb-600 with the diffuser down and pointed at a 45 degree angle upwards. it was the main source of light as i turned the overhead lights off.
i now have a great respect for the work that mr cobos does. it took me over two hours to get the shot i wanted!! and there it still room for improvement.
D300, 18-200VR at 135mm, f/10, 20s, 0EV, ISO 400, rear curtain flash at 1/8th power bounced. i know the settings are weird but that's what i got to work. had no studio lights!! after all the setup i never even thought about changing the ISO. manually changed the wb in postprocessing as it came out too warm from the camera.
thanks for looking and comments and critiques are appreciated!
Originally Posted by Gail Spitler
