Sometime last year, Eamon Armstrong and I did a night kite shoot.
It was the first time I was out at night with a flash – usually I rely on ambient light to shoot stuff – but I’d seen some really hot post dusk wakeboarding shots and wanted to have a go at something similar. Albeit, without 15 off camera flashes.
This is what we came up with. The photographs were taken with the last 40D (ie the now dead 40D), a 580EXII and the lens was the 50mm 1.8 prime chosen to remove options from my mind.
The bad part is the flash range is about 10 metres. This means I’m standing in water – barely visible – for a kitesurfer to come flying past me closer than he’d normally be anyway to try and make these shots.
This shot was november on the 2009 Pure Magic calendar all of which I shot so currently I see it every day and I still love it. It was the best shot we got that evening and was worth the being freezing cold. I was also reminded of this because on Saturday, while I was in Sligo, shooting these, we did talk about night sessions afterwards. So want to do that again. Can’t quite face the cold right now.
Have to flag this fantastic time lapse of the Mardi Gras. It’s a bit slow to download but is well worth waiting for.
Also want to flag this from Bryan Elkus – Cape Hatteras Sunrise
Richard was lightpainting last night.
James Jordan has this Under the Stars which I think is just gorgeous.
As the long winter evenings are in, I am having thoughts about things I want to do with a little lack of light.
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