Here's one from a late AM night of bouldering with Paul near Carson City, NV.
The shoot was a little disorganized, we showed up in the dark, the batteries were dead on our spotlight, I had never been to the spot before and Paul had only climbed there once. On top of that, it was ridiculously windy and the stands blew over a few times.
Strobist:
2x Nikon Sb-800s with CTO gels to freeze the climber (sort of), 1 LED
flashlight (red gelled) to paint in the rock and background.
Photoshopped out the SBs. The white balance was set to tungsen and the
final exposure was 8 seconds, f/4, ISO 1000 (to pull in the stars) and
the speedlights set to rear sync.
There's a bit of motion blur from his leg moving, but it's not bad.
By the way, just after this shot, the rock broke and since someone had moved the crash pad out of the shot, Paul hit pretty hard, but still landed on his feet.
(Explore #3)
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Ben Canales 37 months ago | reply
Wow-wow wow!
I've been chomping at the bit this Spring waiting for clouds to clear out here to try strobes with night shots. You did this well. The location and composition is really stunning.
I checked the exif- really impressive the climber held the pose for 8 sec!
I was curiuos if there would be issue of the strobe light reflecting off of dust in the air- you didn't have any problem with that? It looks like the sky came through clear and clear.
Man, I love those snow capped mountains down on the horizon.
Well done. Wellllll done :-)
qaijok 37 months ago | reply
very, very good
cbabylons 36 months ago | reply
Excellent shot!
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pinguin1961 35 months ago | reply
Absolutly fantastic and beautiful!
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- Atheer. 34 months ago | reply
nothing to say for this shot !!
its an amaizing!
Anas Arab "Back to web design" 33 months ago | reply
Great shot
delta.V 32 months ago | reply
Man, this is one amazing shot! All the elements are there and it's just awesome.
Nice work!
Desert4wd 31 months ago | reply
Really well done. I dig the entire photograph and thanks for posting.
jmvazquezjr (jmv_nyc) 25 months ago | reply
Amazing shot! The light, stars, timing....everything!
Ashley Honeycutt 23 months ago | reply
Wow. Everything about this photo is amazing!
NZ Photo Workshops 18 months ago | reply
I like the movement in the leg; it makes the shot more dynamic. The diagonals really add to the whole composition. Great shot.
Ben Moscona | Photography 7 months ago | reply
This is so sick! I'm speechless :D
Yannis_H 5 months ago | reply
amazing................