Long and straight

Had some fun shooting my friend Brian nailing a few drives. Alien Bee through softbox.

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Wow, really cool shot! Love the lighting.

Great job on the lighting.

love it.. hook it.. slice it..

nice shot.. golf and photography..

phamster

Wow, have to agree love the lighting and the sky looks unreal.

jtjohn wrote in post #8520500
Wow, have to agree love the lighting and the sky looks unreal.

I actually had to desaturate the blues a little, the sky was amazing that day.

Thanks everyone for the kind comments.

Haha, what you did to the blues is the exact opposite of what I do alot of the time.

Very nice, I love the colors.

amazing photo. the subject really pops. excellent capture indeed

this is my goal.... to obtain photos like this.

So you exposed for the sky/trees, how do you know how much flash to use? I have started to dapple in ocf but just a tiny bit.... I know how to expose for the background, just don't understand how to set my flash. I heard the 580 exll picks the same exposure as what your camera has metered but would like to learn how to do it myself.

Great shot.
Thanks Kathleen

Fantastic shot! I need to start using my AB's outside. Were you using the Vagabond?

Photos By Katie wrote in post #8526516
this is my goal.... to obtain photos like this.

So you exposed for the sky/trees, how do you know how much flash to use? I have started to dapple in ocf but just a tiny bit.... I know how to expose for the background, just don't understand how to set my flash. I heard the 580 exll picks the same exposure as what your camera has metered but would like to learn how to do it myself.

Great shot.
Thanks Kathleen

Kathleen. First things first, you cant take this shot, at least this shot when I took this shot, with the 580exII. It takes a very powerful flash to "overpower" the sunlight on a bright afternoon. But you can probably do it a bit later in the day. Its simple with a flashmeter, a bit more challenging without but doable. All you do is take a test shot to establish your base exposure at the shutter speed you will use. Because I was using the alien bee flash I was limited to 1/250 of a second, ISO 100 at roughly f/8. This basically gave me the sky I wanted and the dark grass in the shadow. All I had to do then was add enough flash to illuminate my subject. I was probably at 3/4 power on the bee in a fairly inefficient softbox. You can try the 580 (manual full power) without a diffuser and see what you get. I think for you to have much success you are going to need to let the sun go down a bit.

AxxisPhoto wrote in post #8526637
Fantastic shot! I need to start using my AB's outside. Were you using the Vagabond?

Yes, I picked up an older vagabond I and this was only my second time out with it. I cant wait to do more but I have trouble getting willing subjects having gone through the list of friends and family already.

Thanks for commenting.

gonzogolf wrote in post #8526978
Yes, I picked up an older vagabond I and this was only my second time out with it. I cant wait to do more but I have trouble getting willing subjects having gone through the list of friends and family already.

Thanks for commenting.

Did you darken the corners in PS? I like that effect.

Yeah, I used the lens correction vignette in PS CS3. The part of the range we were shooting on was a little ratty so did a pretty bold vignette with that then layered it over the original and masked it so the corners and the bottom were a bit darker. I was trying to hide the bad grass and keep the subject a bit brighter in the middle wihout being too obvious about it. I see too much heavy handed vignette work on the forum, always gotta check that I'm not doing it myself.