Utterly dissapointed, complitely discouraged and filled with apathy I walked away from the first dacer-shoot. ..Hold on I was not filled with apathy, I was filled with anger. F.. it, I will take this on again. Next time I’ll do it the way I know best.
Luckily Maiju was heading back to Kotka the very next weekend.
“Cool, reshoot?”
“Okay…”
“Hell yea!!!”
I thought: to hell with the ambient, I can’t do shit with it now, so I will drag the strobes. I will kill the ambient, I will spot the cool shoes, I’ll do it the way I know and the way I am most comfortable with.
Almost.. Like a proved idiot I sold my radiotriggers before I got the new ones. Thus I had only the Nikon CLS system and the sb800/600 combo to go with. What it meant was I did not have a rim light. Sure I could use the main and the rim but the folks at the dancestudio move were so excited about their new cool MoonShoes. I had to put a grided sb on them.
Had a new assistant to work with, Iina. She has more talent behind the camera than I ever had and I do hope that she picked up a spark for lighting. No telling where she would take her photography with an ezybox and “manual mode level” understanding of the camera-flash combination..
The new enthusiast photo and a mongoose imitation…
Hell yeah! The original was not bad, but yes, you do work better with strobes. I must say that this enthusiast series is a great idea and you are doing a great job at it.