How I shot It - LIZZY and SOPHIA

After hours shoots are a big part of Shutterfest. This was my first scheduled after hours shoot of the event. I actually had 2 back to back this day and a possible 3rd shoot happening after those, so there wasn’t a lot of time to do as much as I wanted. Shane and Amanda were there with me so we all took turns setting up and shooting etc.

As noted before, one of the challenging things is finding a new place to work in, or at least a new way to make a frequently shot at location unique.  It had been a while since I had shot in this location which is on the South end of Union Station near the famous lighted floor.  There was a lot going on in this area, so I shot with a 70-200 2.8 at 100mm  to minimize the distractions.

This was another 3 light set up with the softbox and 2 flashes with gels as well to give the space some character.

For this I used a 3 flash set up. This included a Godox AD200 in a 24x36 umbrella softbox on a Manfrotto Nano Stand, and then 2 Godox TT600 speedlights with one Nanostand and other on a piano with Magmod Creative Gels and Spheres to help with diffusion behind ally aimed upwards on the wall.

Settings:

Nikon Z8 @ ISO 64 , 1/200 sec

Nikon Z 70-200 F2.8 @ 100mm F2.8

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I took Sophia around the corner and we set up in this small hallway while Amanda was working with Lizzy. Using one AD 200 with a gridded sphere on a Nano Stand and then 2 TT 600s behind her in the hall way gelled. Shot very close with a Nikon 14-30 F4.

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We met up with Lizzy and Sophia again later in the night before the Rave Party and went out to the back of the hotel to try something new -using LED lights instead of flash. I have never used LED lights before for photography so this was an interesting bit of trial and error.

I’ve had these LED lights for a while but have never really used them for a shoot.

We used 2 Nanlite 10” PavoTubes on the back for colors and a Yonguno YN360 light wand up front as the main light.

I shot this with a 50 1.2 at 1.2 in order to blow out the background. These were at ISO 64 and 1/60.

One thing we learned is, using the low shutterspeed to let more of the ambient light in led to a lot of blurry shots due to subject motion. Definitely not like shooting speedlights that help freeze the motion.

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