Best way to take this sort of picture

Ive had a quick play at snapping my son playing with our mathmos light ball, any suggestions on the best settings to this sort of shot would help.

Thanks in advance
Carl

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That thing looks dangerous. i like the second one a lot better how it illuminates his face

Thanks, I want to try and capture the blue on his face more but cant quite get the right settings to capture it without to much noise.
The ball is quite safe, its a silicone ball with blue led's in it makes a cool light.

Carl

cdmonkey wrote in post #1998669
any suggestions on the best settings to this sort of shot would help.

When asking questions of this sort, it would help to know something about what gear you have - camera, lenses, flash units.

Try manuel and meter on the darker parts of his face , but keep an eye on overexposing the light from the ball .Nice pic .

Well it isn't the greatest light source, so the best way is to probably fake it Maybe wrap something in the shape of a ball in blue rolux and put a flash inside of it!

Hi thanks for the comments.

Curtis Nmy kit is as follows, I have a 350d, a tomron 28-75 2.8 lens, a 50 1.8, a 580ex and 550ex.

One of the toughest things with this is my son moves around so much that the ball never stays in the same place, I will keep trying tho.

Thanks again.

Carl