Using Flash Creatively—No. 9

Today’s photo is another one demonstrating repeating flash.

In my last post, I showed a photo of the how the master and remote flash was set however I did not explain the various settings.  Everything is controlled on the master flash.  On the master, I set Group A to RPT (repeating), Channel 3, the power setting at 1/8^th, number of flashes 8 and the Hz (the number of flashes per second) at 8.  I then set the remote flash to be on Channel 3 and in Group A.

In today’s photo, I had a dancer moving across the stage with three remote flashes hanging from a rod above the dancer’s path.  Again, the hard part of the photo was timing and making sure that the camera did not pick-up too much of the light build-up on the floor.

Enjoy.

Camera settings:  Nikon D4 on a tripod, 24-70mm f/2.8 at 50mm, ISO 100, f/8 at two seconds 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 some of the light build-up on the floor.