PR Folio Environmental

I had big plans for the environmental but they didn't quite play out. I was planning to take photos of my brother in law with some heavy machinery on his earthworks work site. I wanted to shoot either early in the morning or late in the evening to have a pretty moody dark sky, then light the machinery with the monoblocks and the subject with my flash and softbox. Unfortunately the generator they had on site was not compatible with the monoblocks so I had to come up with another strategy.

I ended up shooting earlier in the afternoon so I had a bit more light to work with and took along a small set of flood lights. The flood lights didn't appear to do much but there was a slight improvement in light. We also ended up shining the car headlights onto the digger to try and brighten it up further. Again not sure it did a lot.

I shot the subject standing a fair way from the digger so I could get him filling a more of the frame. I positioned a softbox to my right and set the camera on a timer so I could run around to the left and hold a reflector to bounce some light onto the subjects right hand side. I shot at ISO400 and a shutter speed of 1/10sec just to capture enough light in the environment.

The shot came out ok but not quite what I wanted. With some photoshopping it was acceptable. With no time to reshoot it would have to do :)