How to cross light a mountain: Aoraki Mt. Cook New Zealand
Neil November 12th, 2008
his post is in the Thinking Big series combined with a couple other techniques:
- Thinking Big: outside the music hall
- Lighting a HUGE space – for anything that may happen
- + Light Control: turn the sky from white to blue
- + Balancing the Sun with flash – Crosslighting
Equals how to cross light a mountain!
One of the repetitive questions I get from people are – why such a big flash – and why take it all over with you?
Quite frankly – this is EXACTLY why!
In my lighting case that I loaded onto the plane in Rochester New York was:
- 1 Alien Bee 800 Monoblock flash unit
- 1 Paul C. Buff Vagabond portable power unit and power cord
- 1 Black Impact Air Cusioned light stand height 230cm (model #SLS-LS8A)
- 1 Pocketwizard reciever
- Paul C Buff 11 inch parabolic reflector
Here’s one of the resulting peak moment shots that I try to reach for in my wedding photojournalism. The lighting case was loaded in the helicopter’s coffin gear carrier for the trip up the mountain and across the island. But a large mono-light wasn’t all I had in my arsenal…
Of course I want to cover the whole event with variety as well as style so get past the jump and let’s talk details…
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