Portraits of Craig

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Portraits of Craig

Postby Nnnnsic on Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:02 pm

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Geoff, Craig & I were experimenting with the SB-800 during the micro-meet and I must've been lucky to capture Craig being hit with the flash...
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Postby stubbsy on Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:04 pm

#1 is superb - great tight framing and aided and abetted by a willing model. #2 is not as good + I don't like the softness of it. #3 is trully weird, but I like it.
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Postby wendellt on Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:06 pm

nice asymetrical comp on the fisrt
your showing your skill here

whats happening in the 3rd shot some sort of flash?
whats the story behind it?
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Postby Nnnnsic on Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:10 pm

wendellt wrote:whats happening in the 3rd shot some sort of flash?
whats the story behind it?


Geoff, Craig & I were playing with commander mode with the SB-800 to see what we could get going between the SB-800 and all of our on-board flashes, and I snapped some pictures randomly as we were doing it, and upon post-processing today I noticed that I'd some how grabbed one where Craig had actually been hit by the flash during the shot.
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Postby Geoff on Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:19 pm

I'm with what Peter said, almost word for word :)

We did have fun and it's truely excellent that whenever we catch up with Craig he is a very willing model for us to experiment on!!
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Postby Alpha_7 on Sun Jul 02, 2006 9:58 pm

I really like #1 Leigh seems well balanced, exposed, (Katie likes it because you can't tell its "That green Jumper" that I'm wearing).

#2 seems a little soft and my teeth have never been as white (who needs a dentist).

#3 Lucky capture I can even remember being bammed by the flash finally when we sorted out the flash modes.
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Postby Manta on Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:00 pm

Some nice shots there Leigh. Just be careful though... keep this up and Craig won't be getting out of bed for less than $200,000 a day!
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Postby Steffen on Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:18 am

Manta wrote:Some nice shots there Leigh. Just be careful though... keep this up and Craig won't be getting out of bed for less than $200,000 a day!


Exactly my thoughts. Craig seems to be succesfully profiling himself as a model lately... 8)

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Postby ABG on Tue Jul 04, 2006 12:28 am

First shot is a truly superb portrait Leigh.
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