simulating daylight.......

27 August 2010
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh

I've tried this kinda shot at Baliati as well during the last photowalk there in May 2010.... now, I can try to replicate this once again.....

it was a gloomy day.... just rained.... and there was hardly any sunlight, let alone harsh sunlight... I put an SB-900 on a tripod in the balcony and triggered it with the help of Elinchrom Skyport radio trigger.... put a warm gel filter on the flash to simulate late afternoon sunlight..... the grills on the window did the rest..... I just wished I could place the flash a bit further from the window, but the size of the balcony restricted this.... I had to be happy with this.....





Nikon D700 + Nikkor AF 50mm f1.4D
1/30s, f8, ISO400
Strobist info:
Nikon SB-900 with warm gel filter on tripod, triggered by Elinchrom Skyport @ 1/2 power

Lamisa's moments with waterdrops......

27 August 2010
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh

it was an instant decision to do it..... Lamisa was under the shower and this is something that I've not captured yet... previously I've captured Lamisa in the water-bowl.... but its been a while since then..... so, its time to update.... she's growing up and making her way up the ladder..... it wasn't just she who loved the moment, we all drowned in that short moment of joy and excitement....

now, the geeky stuff..... I wanted the water-drops to feature prominently... and required the stopping power of a flash.... I put on an SB-900 on the camera and relied on its excellent TTL capabilities.... I even brought the shutter speed down to 1/40s to see where it goes..... anyway, I would've loved to get the background as less prominent as possible... lets see, may be next time..... :)









Nikon D700 + Nikkor AF 50mm f1.4D + Nikon SB-900

enjoying tethered shooting......

25 August 2010
Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh

just got inspired by a YouTube video of a German commercial photographer..... he had been using his netbook for tethered shooting..... its not that I haven't seen this before..... but its the first time I've seen someone using a netbook instead of a big laptop or a big LCD monitor..... its a great tool to use, especially for portrait photography.....

I searched the Net and downloaded DCamCapture..... its a free software and supports latest DSLR models...... its simple, but does the most important thing.... it brings the photo into the computer right after the shutter release...... it doesn't have an image viewer, but I didn't find this particularly limiting.... I used the ViewNX software as the viewer and problem solved..... I only needed to push the next button to see the picture..... I wasn't really bothered by that, at least, don't feel bothered right now...

I took the opportunity to shoot some young models in-house and the system tested positive.... seeing the images big right after the shoo is a big advantage..... it helps to check critical focus much more easily and also helps to judge other things in the picture with more ease.... camera LCD does the same thing, but its too small to save a lot of time....



Model: Tabassum
Nikon D700 + Nikkor AF 50mm f1.4D
f1.4, 1/125s, ISO1600
Illumination from tube-light



Model: Tabassum
Nikon D700 + Nikkor AF 50mm f1.4D
f1.4, 1/125s, ISO640
Illumination from tube-light