Photography | Michael Gniewosz

Off Camera Lighting with Dave Black

Friday, September 11th, 2009

I came across the work of Dave Black today. He’s doing some cool things with speedlights off camera to create some great looks. He set up 4 SB-900 flashes in a single softbox to overcome the camera’s limit to sync a flash with the shutter. Most camera’s today have a limit on what the shutter speed is when using the flash because the duration of the flash and the shutter speed don’t overlap past a certain speed. You can overcome this by lowering the output of your flash, but that way you lose power. You can read a better explanation over on Strobist

So by stuffing 4 flashes in a softbox Dave is able to regain the power he is losing and shoot at much higher shutter speeds and create the dramatic looks you see below. Check out more of his work on his website Dave Black Photography.

motorcycles

And the set up.

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Formula Drift Sonoma in pictures

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Last weekend had the Indy Racing League come to Infinion Raceway in Sonoma County. Along with the IRL, Formula Drift ended up tagging along and having their event a few weeks early. This was also the first event where I was able to get a media pass to shoot from the other side of the fence. There were complaints from some of the other photographers about the IRL restricting where Formula D could put some of the cement barriers, thereby limiting the places where we could shoot from. I tried to do my best with what where were allowed to go. I definitely feel like there were some places that I wanted to shoot from but didn’t have time, and I guess that’s a lesson learned for next time to make better use of my time.

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