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Post your best "overpowering the sun" shot !
I just got my first power pack last week. Here is one of the test images...shot with the alien bee vagabond II and alien bee 1600 with a medium photoflex softbox with the front diffuser panel removed. ISO 50, Circular Polarizer, 70-200 @ 7.1.  May 19 08 05:00 pm Link   My uber-friend Madykins.  May 19 08 05:03 pm Link it's easier to overpower the sun when the sun isn't very strong. this was a bare vivitar 285hv, probably at 1/4 or something. light was changing rapidly, of course, so i just adjusted the flash to give the effect i wanted.  May 19 08 05:05 pm Link Eddie Velasquez wrote: ...wow May 19 08 05:05 pm Link Turi studios wrote: This is awesome! the saturation is bad ass! May 19 08 05:05 pm Link Turi studios wrote: The vignette is cool! is this a fisheye? or wide? May 19 08 05:07 pm Link I have a lot of those types that I personally love... so here ya go.  This was done with a reflector and a 580 EX Fill flash...  Done with Studio lights on low setting, dont have the exact meta data but I can get it if needed.  Reflector w/ 580 ex  Reflector w/ 580 ex May 19 08 05:07 pm Link  May 19 08 05:11 pm Link Not quite in the same league with the others posted here but this was my first attempt at it.  May 19 08 05:11 pm Link  May 19 08 05:13 pm Link Corona Imagez wrote: wide... was somewhere between 17 and 24 May 19 08 05:24 pm Link Smedley Whiplash wrote: Polarizer helps as well. May 19 08 05:26 pm Link ...  EDIT: huh. according to the below post, I did it wrong. May 19 08 05:29 pm Link Joe Miglionico wrote: Take ambient light reading. May 19 08 05:31 pm Link  AB800 cranked up with 7" reflector Somewhere around 1/125 F10.... May 19 08 06:56 pm Link   Both shoot with 1 profoto compact 600 on full blast 2nd shot sun directly overhead. Only a reflector on the strobe, no other light modifiers. May 19 08 07:00 pm Link   This was taken shortly before noon at the beach on a bright and sunny day. One light (Zack Arias and his onelight workshop changed the way I shoot in a major way).... an AB800, probably full power since it was so bright outside, shot through an umbrella, 100 ISO, 250 shutter speed..... and ummmm, I'll have to look up data to get the exact aperture but probably f/16 or smaller. (Just went back and looked it up and it was f/18.... pretty good for a guess based on noontime conditions.) The posing on the photo isn't my favorite because it was just a test shoot where I was teaching another photographer how to shoot in bright harsh light by using one light to basically overpower the sun. Since we live in the deep south, if we don't learn to do this, we limit the amount of hours (OK Minutes by June and July) that we have "pretty" light to shoot in. I don't exactly do it like the description already posted. For me, I remember that shutter speed controls ambient light so my fastest sync speed (250 for my cameras) lets in the least amount of light from the sky. Fully power flash with a small aperture brought the model's exposure up a couple of stops over the background preventing a blown out sky that I used to would have to settle for at high noon in the south. If I had balanced the exposure on the model's face with the back lighting, I would have lost a lot of the blue in the sky since it was bright but kind of hazy like we tend to get here once it heats up. And I got badly sunburned on this shoot. Don't forget sunscreen when shooting to overpower the sun. :-) May 19 08 07:09 pm Link May 19 08 07:26 pm Link  May 19 08 07:31 pm Link Where are the guys' photos? =P Here is with a male model.  May 19 08 07:31 pm Link I've never been very successful with this technique which is why I've not been very successful taking photos of models on beaches. My problem is the images come out way too flat and lifeless. What are some good techniques for overpowering the sun? Some of the images posted here are fantastic; I would like to learn how to do that. And maybe then I'll have something to post! May 19 08 07:34 pm Link ok, well I'm going to post mine as it looks like some of them posted here: This is my first try..... Just after noon... canon 40d ISO100 1/125 f/18 17mm canon 580ex on full power I can't remember how far I was standing from her..not very far....  May 19 08 07:37 pm Link Ronald N Tan wrote: Nice...... Need someone to tag along the next time you shoot him, just call me. :-P May 19 08 07:37 pm Link Eikona wrote: I *love* this image,specially the car May 19 08 07:38 pm Link All of these are wondfull, But it would be much better if we could get how they were don'e specs. with each photo so more of us can learn how this is done :0) May 19 08 07:45 pm Link https://www.modelmayhem.com/pic.php?pic … id=4288272 Qflash Telephoto reflector plus 1 stop over background sky May 19 08 07:55 pm Link  May 19 08 08:06 pm Link pellepiano wrote: These are amazing. Wonderful all around!! May 19 08 08:06 pm Link  May 19 08 08:11 pm Link  May 19 08 08:12 pm Link  May 19 08 08:14 pm Link My first try:  May 19 08 08:14 pm Link   Please check my portfolio out for some more 'overpowering the sun' photographs. Thanks! May 19 08 08:16 pm Link  Not exactly what you were asking for, as it was the end of the day/twilight (around 8:30PM when the sun was setting at 8:50PM). Maybe this is overpowering the backlight and using the dark... I don't know. Here is the story. I was asked by my clients Kynt & Vyxsin, to shoot some photos for Louisville's Goth Prom and do a signing of our Gothic Beauty spread. The promoter who had a different idea said, "Oh, we want you to do portraits too... did you bring lights or backgrounds or anything." I didn't. So... I found the folks that wanted portraits, found a spot. Then proceeded to lay on the ground. Popped off the ex540 and used my XTi's on camera flash, pushing the exposure to -1.33, IS0 200, f/6.3, 1/60. Focal length 18 on a 17-55mm. Asked people to stand where I told them. Insta-gothy background. Overbearing the waning sun on a cloudy overcast day! One chance, one shot each. May 19 08 08:19 pm Link Joe Messenger wrote: Try it this way: May 19 08 09:14 pm Link pellepiano wrote: That shot is SO TIGHT! May 19 08 09:16 pm Link May 19 08 09:16 pm Link  May 19 08 09:38 pm Link   May 19 08 09:39 pm Link Is that at American River College? I thought I recognized the track and the tennis courts. Dan Hood mm/moderator wrote: May 19 08 09:43 pm Link |
