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This was over sharpened, and flickr only makes it worse.

2 Flashes here - Pocketwizzard Plus II:

-Nikon SB-28 (1/4 CTO) hidden behind the beam that says 7
-Nikon SB-28 just out of frame to the right

Nikon D300s & 70-200 2.8 vr1
f4.5 1/250 ISO400

I haven't posted anything in ages.

Nikon SB-28 Camera right (Full Power)
Nikon SB-28 Camera left (1/2 Power)
Nikon SB-28 behind cones, pointing at Cory’s but (1/8th Power)

All triggered with Pocket Wizzard Plus II

This was exposed for 1/250 at f7.1 ISO 100 with a Nikon D300s with a 35mm focal length equitant of round 80mm.

I processed the RAW file in Adobe Camera Raw, applying a custom camera profile set with an X-Rite passport, then made tonal adjustments (Curves and some increasing of Clarity / Mid-tone Contrast), minor vignette, and sharpening.

In Photoshop CS 4 I used (Filter -> Distort -> Lens Correction) to apply a little swing and tilt to make the building and road all symmetrical.

A Nikon SB-28 attached to a Manfrotto Justin Clamp wich was clamped to the top of the stop sign, just out of frame. It created the separation light hitting colin's back, shoulders and arms.

Next another SB-28 on a 5 foot light stand just of of camera right created the key light hitting his right front side, and illuminating the bushes.

Finally the real trick to this set-up is the additional SB-28 that really dosen't look like another light source. It's placed on a extra low light stand, dialed -2 stops, pointed up at his body to fill in the shadows created by cross-lighting him.

The image was expoosed for 1/60 of a second thru a Nikkor 50mm at f3.5 captured as a .NEF file by a Nikon D300s set at ISO 200, with a white balance of 6,000 degrees.

Minor corrections to exposure and color cast were made in Adobe Camera RAW, sharpening was added in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

Cheers.

1/1000 f4.5 ISO 100
Tokina 11-16 2.8 @ 11mm (Top of image was cropped out)

One SB-600 via SC-17 full power (Auto FP and High Speed Sync)

.NEF in Adobe Camera Raw