Demo 15 Night for Day

The stradegy was to use the power of the strobe to over power the ambient light and the use color to say night. One light on the outside was used to shine the light through the neighbor's tree and give the outside of the house a dappled moon light effect. The camera was set on tungsten white balance so that the strobe light would appear blue. 3 strobes were used on the inside of the house. Each light had 2 layers of tungsten conversion gel. The 1st layer makes the strobe match the tungsten setting on the camera. The 2nd gel makes the light look like tungsten light on daylight color balance.

Production Stills by Lauraberth Lima

Demo 14 Pocket Wizard TT5 and Profoto 600B

To demonstrate the range of the Pocket Wizard TT5 on both TTL and Hi Sync. Note the shutter speed of 1/4000 of a second. Amazing!!

Look under Links of Interest for Pocket Wizard TT5 and Hi Sync. There are some excellent videos that helps explain how all this technology works.


The light weight and powerful Profoto 600B in action.






Production Stills by Pacifico Silano and Mike Lin

Demo 13 ND filter and Weather Balloon

We talked about using the Pocket Wizard II to trigger the camera and then using the same pocket wizard on the camera's hot shoe to go into relay mode to fire a flash. Page 8 of the Pocket Wizard II manual explains the setting and cabling. The weather balloons came from here: http://www.scientificsonline.com/professional-weather-balloon.html Production stills by Brandon Holmes

Demo 12 8 Light

8 Light Portraits with Backgrounds

Production Stills by Ryan Koopmans

Demo 11 Still Life with Tilt Shift Lens

The 90mm Canon Tilt Shift lens is good for controlling the depth of field. The lower left example is with the lens shifted to exaggerate a shallow depth of field. The rest of the examples have the lens was shifted to increase the depth of field. I had a picture of a blue sky that I used as a background in the final still life. Since I had shot the still life in two parts I was able to use the shlhouette layer as a mask for the sky background. Production stills by Jeremy Haik

Demo 10 Monkey Bar Noir

Production Stills by Pacifico Silano

Demo 9 Monkey Bar Chiaroscuro

Production Still by Michael Lin