Using Flash Creatively—No. 6

I have been fascinated by stroboscopic or repeating flash ever since I saw Joe McNally demonstrate it on video.  You can see the video here.

Overall, sitting-up the flash is relatively easy.  In today’s photo, I used a Nikon SB 800 as the master and two SB 800s as the flashes that provided the light for the photo.

In doing this shot, I soon discovered that the difficult part of getting the shot was timing.  Trying to get the number of flashes over a specific time element was extremely difficult and required many tries before I got what I wanted.

Enjoy.

Camera settings:  Nikon D4 on a tripod, 24-70mm f/2.8 at 50mm, ISO 100, f/8 at one second on a tripod.

Post Processing:

Lightroom 4—applied Nikon Vivid preset during import, set white and black points and added vibrance.

Photoshop CS5—cloned-out a hand in the top left and one in the top right to make the photo more symmetric and cloned-out some places in the photo that showed some light build-up.

Photoshop CS5—cloned-out a hand in the top left and one in the top right to make the photo more symmetric and cloned-out some places in the photo that showed some light build-up.