Steampunk revisited
05th November 2011
We recently had a fantastic time with a couple we met at the “Asylum” Victorian Steampunk Society convention in Lincoln. We invited Simon and Sarah to come and stay with us for a weekend and then subjected them to 2 strenuous modeling sessions. The first was with just Mike & me at the Boys village, which worked really well for adding some some atmospheric backdrops to the costumes.
As taking situational portraits is totally new to me, this was always going to be a challenge and I made loads of mistakes, but I learnt a huge amount and enjoyed every minute. I hardly ever use flash, because frankly it has always scared me in the past, but I knew that to get the best out of the location I would need to attempt it. Using a couple of Canon speedlights and a nifty wireless transmitter that allows the flash exposure to be controlled TTL I managed to get a few decentish images - had I understood the way flash works I'm sure they would have been even better, but for a first attempt I was quite pleased! The list of learning points I took from the day was quite extensive and I now appreciate the limitations of the IR flash trigger system; having to have the receivers in the line of sight soon became a bit of a pain – but I think I would like to play with this more now.
As taking situational portraits is totally new to me, this was always going to be a challenge and I made loads of mistakes, but I learnt a huge amount and enjoyed every minute. I hardly ever use flash, because frankly it has always scared me in the past, but I knew that to get the best out of the location I would need to attempt it. Using a couple of Canon speedlights and a nifty wireless transmitter that allows the flash exposure to be controlled TTL I managed to get a few decentish images - had I understood the way flash works I'm sure they would have been even better, but for a first attempt I was quite pleased! The list of learning points I took from the day was quite extensive and I now appreciate the limitations of the IR flash trigger system; having to have the receivers in the line of sight soon became a bit of a pain – but I think I would like to play with this more now.