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For our fourth model shoot at the Google Plus Centennial Park PicANiK we had another impromptu guest model. This time we had a very flexible young lady who was a ballerina, dancer and trapeze artist – so we figured we’ve got all these Nikon speedlights, light stands, light modifiers and a lovely dancer so it was time to try and emulate (however poorly) the legendary Joe McNally.

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

The Dancer

NIKON D600 + 16.0-35.0 mm f/4.0 @ 30 mm, 1/800 sec at f/5.6, ISO 400

Huge props to Stephen Godfrey for setting up the lighting. Softboxes on the left and right with a zoomed bare flash on the ground behind our leaping model to provide a rim light – all three running on Nikon’s Creative Lighting System (CLS) and in Auto-FP High Speed Sync.

With our very athletic model doing leaps, spins, splits and pirouettes over a spot we’d marked on the ground as the ideal target location for her – we were left trying to get a dozen Nikon shooters to only work one at a time so they weren’t all stealing the flash 🙂

When I got my turn to shoot I got down low on the ground and close to the danger zone with a wide lens and triggered using my SB-900 running in master/commander mode on the camera hotshoe.

What do you think – probably not worthy of a Joe McNally second look but I was pretty happy for my first attempt at this and a multi light setup…

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