Freeeeezing!

So it was really cold today, but a
good friend of mine, photographer Rainer
Moster, assistant Tim Hotfilter, our
model Jules and her boyfriend decided
to get out in the wild and take some
pictures together.
Today's theme was very simple, a rather
classy outfit an abandoned harbor basin
an overload of flashlights and uncommon
shooting angles.
Let's as always start out with the final
picture (this time out of cam - sized and
sharpened).



As you can see I was shooting down at
my model from some feed above. To blur
out the background I used the rather uncommon
aperture of f/2.5.
My model was wearing a black blazer and
a black blouse, as every photographer knows
not a very good idea when you're light-skinned.
To illuminate the clothes and the models skin
correctly I was in need of 4 flashguns.
Take a look at the setup picture (somewhere
down there).
My master flashunit was in my octabox, connected
with a 5 yard e-ttl cable to my EOS 7D.
3 slave flashes (Yongnuo YN-460 II) were also
used. One was in the cabin of the old wheel
loader right behind her (1/16). One used for the
hairlight and illumination of her left sleeve (1/8).
One to light up the background and the floor as well
as throw some light on her blouse (1/16). All
listed from left to right in the picture.



I climbed up an old oiltank and as I said was
shooting down at here (50mm). I set my ISO to 400 to
save some flash power and I used 1/160 as an exposure
time to freeze all motion. And exclude every
surrounding light (not that there was any).






 Alright, I just wanted to share that with you guys,
maybe it's inspiring for some of you.

Thanks for reading,
Jo Thomas
www.jothomasphotography.com