This weekend I decided to do some studio photographs for my business cards and ended up, wildlife hunting in the studio, the results where rather interesting…
But first, the requirements:
- 1x large garage to be transformed into 1x photography studio.
- 1x Chromakey green screen 3x6m
- 1x Partner (to setup the studio and push the trigger, not to mention give some odd ideas)
- A couple of 300W big flashes, remote triggers and soft boxes to boot.
- A tripod
- 2 DSLR and a couple of lenses
- 1x fluffy penguin
- Lots of patience, I do not particularly enjoy being on the wrong end of the lens.
As I said it all started for a shoot aimed at allowing me to complete my business card… And ended up with me shooting a penguin with a 100-400mm lens as shown above.
A couple of things I learned doing this, do not forget the flash sync speed on a Canon camera is between 60 and 200 m/s ! I though that there was something wrong with my camera, the right of the picture was always dark, like an idiot I had my camera set to 250th of a second. I knew better but still managed to loose an hour at attempting to figure this out. Secondly, it takes me about 2 hours to setup shop, and then an hour to pack it all up, so if you use your garage as a studio and to park your cars be ready for that. And thirdly, padded mats, those tiles used by sports people, rock. My knees, survived the whole shoot and it was not uncomfortable lying down either, so I recommend it.
This is my fist attempt at using a Chromakey background to do a special effect. Though the one here above has not effect save the fact that I removed the key. Now take the image above (can you still call it a photograph?) and replace the background and the fluffy penguin with a cheetah …
I agree I did not put a lot of effort in this case but imagine…
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