Halloween promo shoot, shooting in the rain.

Setting up for a promo flyer for the Halloween show of my wife's dance troupe.

We got to the location - a bit of unused road in an undeveloped section of subdivision and set up. After about three shots, it started to rain - a couple drops at first then it really started coming down. We shot for two or three minutes in the rain then tossed the gear back in the car and drove to a covered area to finish up (the covered entryway to a local high school, lulz)

The silhouette photos turned out pretty much exactly as I had hoped. I would have liked a bit more definition in the fingers, I might process them a bit more and see what I can do. And, I have a smoke machine that I wanted to use to put some low crawling smoke on the ground, but it's still up in the attic. We need to get the flyer put together and turned around so we can have them in hand by early September, so I didn't have time to get it down and working again, plus I didn't have power at this location.

In-camera white balance was still set to really cold from some shooting a few nights prior. Unintentional, but I think it turned out really cool, so I didn't change it on the rain shots.

These are with the 5D3, the 27-70L, the 70-200 f/4L, and two YN-560s on stands. The first three were bare flash (too much wind for modifiers), the last three are with umbrellas.

1. One of the few shots we got done before it started to rain.

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I LOVE the rain ones...if you can turn it red, that would be SO cool!

Thanks! I'll post an update once I've run them through Photoshop, and after we've finished the flyer design.

This is just my opinion, but the lighting is too basic. It looks like rembrandt/butterfly lighting to me which lights an image better than on camera flash, but just one step better. I understand that the wind removed the use of a modifier, but sandwiching the light or a different set up would have created a much more dramatic image. The costume is great but i personally feel that the lighting doesnt tell the story here.

just my humble opinion.

Thanks for the comments. I'm still pretty inexperienced with photographic lighting, and this was trying something new. I'll have to read up on sandwich lighting and do some more experiments.

Honestly, this is one of the first times I've felt limited by my on-the-cheap lighting setup - specifically, the lack of modeling lights. Without modeling lights on the YN-560s, every shot was an educated guess as to exactly where the highlights and shadows would fall.

For instance, in #1 I'm really not happy with the shadow of her right arm (camera left) on her right hip. The way the shadow blocks the highlighted edge, the hip gets an odd shape. The more I look at it, the more it bugs me.

Looks good tho man keep shooting. There is clearly potential here.

Thanks Alan. With every shot and with every shoot, I get better, especially thanks to constructive feedback like yours.