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Oct 27, 2007 12:41 |  #1

I was asked to do a pictures for 9 senior football players. I have 2 AB800's with umbrellas, I also have some cheap Steve Keiser strobes (4). Does anyone have any examples on how I should shoot this! It can be indoor or outdoor. There mascot (a warrior). I think all of the boys will be in Green & White. I am at a loss here because I was asked to take it this morning and tommorow they want me to take it. Please... any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

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Oct 27, 2007 20:01 |  #2

Group shot or individual?




  
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Oct 28, 2007 13:00 as a reply to  @ LonestarMan's post |  #3

GROUP SHOT


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Oct 28, 2007 19:54 |  #4

You don't need all that lighting. Go outside and use the light there. Do it later in the day, close to sunset so the sun will be down behind the treeline. This will give you great lighting for the group and then you can use an on camera flash set to -1 to -2 FEC for fill. I usually split that at -1 1/2. If you try to rely too much on your lights to expose the group, you're gonna have to make sure you have your lighting set up evenly for the group which is really just too much un-needed work. If you only use flash for fill, it's going to be exposed properly throughout the frame, and then the flash can fill in the shadows.

Do you need to know how to pose them as well?


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Oct 28, 2007 20:06 |  #5

Hope it went well. Post the pics when you can.


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Oct 29, 2007 19:23 as a reply to  @ jargaguy's post |  #6

We rescheduled it for this weekend! Thanks for the tips!!!


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Oct 31, 2007 11:50 |  #7

www.strobist.com (external link) they have some examples from on assignment shoots with HS/college sports athletes with some really good results. Just scroll down and on the right you will see a drop down tab called Complete On-assignment Archive.
heres one of them:
http://strobist.blogsp​ot.com …shade-is-your-friend.html (external link)


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