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Post your best "overpowering the sun" shot !
Would love to see some overpowering the sun photos,please include settings etc,here is one of mine to start. 160 at f16,100 iso,2 x 5 foot softboxes,1 beauty dish,3x 1000 portable flash heads all on full.  May 19 08 11:32 am Link Don't have any yet....just got a battery pack...but I must say that Australia looks like fun  May 19 08 11:51 am Link  the first time I ever did it. my son in my backyard. May 19 08 11:54 am Link *bookmarking this thread* May 19 08 11:55 am Link  May 19 08 11:57 am Link Do you remember how you shot that great shot Brandon ? May 19 08 11:57 am Link  I don't do a lot of location work normally. But I am making a heavy shift soon to more stuff like this. IN fact, if all goes according to plan, I'll have some killer shots from today's shoot that will put this image to shame. May 19 08 11:59 am Link not totally sure what you mean by "overpowering the sun" but I think this qualifies. I shot this on a roof in Brooklyn.  May 19 08 12:10 pm Link Morgan Kennedy wrote: Your artificial flash light being more powerful, with respect to f/numbers, than the light of the sun. Basically when you under expose the sunlight. May 19 08 12:14 pm Link Thanks they are all great shots ! "overpowering the sun" means you are shooting in full sunlight and you are using your lights to overpower the sun. May 19 08 12:14 pm Link f/8, 1/125, 5 pm late in January. AB800 with 42" westcott shoot thru  f/8, 1/100, high noon (ok, 2 minutes after) sun coming through the tree branches all over the place. AB800 with Brolly Box.  May 19 08 12:16 pm Link May 19 08 12:16 pm Link I give up! May 19 08 12:19 pm Link oooo lol gotcha... i dont think mine quite qualifies then ... woops. But i love the images that have been posted! May 19 08 12:19 pm Link  May 19 08 12:21 pm Link Morgan Kennedy wrote: This is more like making good use of the sun. May 19 08 12:22 pm Link The Rusty Horse wrote: Why does you give up? May 19 08 12:22 pm Link NSE Films wrote: I can't get the image into the post. Bastard computers. May 19 08 12:23 pm Link Turi studios wrote: fantastic! May 19 08 12:24 pm Link Thank you... ok one more...  May 19 08 12:26 pm Link May 19 08 12:28 pm Link Nikon D70s ISO200 1/3200 sec f/5.6 AB400 - 24"x32" Softbox  May 19 08 12:29 pm Link ok maybe just one more....  May 19 08 12:29 pm Link glenn morris wrote: I'm lazy right now but I could go back later if you must really know what the setting were. LOL. I shot this image with a alien bee 800 ring light, in devils light. It was cloudy and all of a sudden it turn back to So Cali on me so this what I got. May 19 08 12:36 pm Link  Bahamian morning sun before noon in Nassau Fuji Astia 100 (yes, slide film) 1/500 sec @ f11...I think It's been a while with fill flash Umbrella (prop) used to diffuse harsh backlight May 19 08 12:41 pm Link Does this count?  Edit: D70, ISO 200 and reflector May 19 08 12:44 pm Link Turi studios wrote: Perfect execution! May 19 08 12:48 pm Link closest I've got. Turi.. great stuff! Alien Bees B800 bare bulb and digital rebel w/ ef24-85 f/3.5-4.5  May 19 08 01:02 pm Link thank you beach... great shot by the way. May 19 08 01:52 pm Link For some reason I'm not as thrilled with over powering the sun as I am matching it. There must be a million ways to vary something though. Too over-powered looks unnatural to me, unless it's high fashion, where reality isn't much of a consideration.  I tend to divide subject matter categorically though... into natural vs unnatural, and whether the shot looks better one way or the other. (depending on the client's tastes too sometimes) Turi's balance is dead on!!!! Right on, dude! May 19 08 02:48 pm Link I don't think taking candy from a 3-year old is considered "overpowering". Well, technically it is, but propbably not what the OP was looking for. May 19 08 02:52 pm Link  May 19 08 02:55 pm Link Here is mine.  Don't mind the text lol, this is NOT a portfolio photograph. I added the text just for fun  May 19 08 02:58 pm Link  I have no idea what he used huahuahu! May 19 08 03:01 pm Link  May 19 08 03:05 pm Link   May 19 08 03:56 pm Link I hope this isn't a stupid question (and if it is, go easy on me, I've had a rough day) but I'm not exactly sure what the process is that you guys are doing here. You're using flash set at a higher level than sunlight? Wouldn't that mean super high shutter speeds? I'm not seeing that in the specs being given out, how does it not result in overexposure? I've honestly never seen this process before, how do you do it? May 19 08 04:15 pm Link Here is one I shot near Hi Noon to 1:00pm  May 19 08 04:50 pm Link Joe Miglionico wrote: Sunny 16 is 125 @ f16 (iso100) (ish), so you just need a flash unit that will put out f16 or more at it's distance from the subject. May 19 08 04:54 pm Link glenn my name today wrote: Wow!!! Crazy good! May 19 08 04:57 pm Link |
