This weekend saw me shoot the rather interesting and talented Kagwe Mungai. His manager, a friend of mine, called me up for the work and I figured it would be fun. Thing is I had no idea what the venue looked like and I thought it would be just Kagwe Mungai. I'm always shooting still lifes so I didn't mind shooting people for a change. We got there at about an hour to sunset so my first few photos would try utilise the sun. Turns out I only had a few minutes because not everyone was around but here is what I got outta the few minutes I had with the sun....
The suns setting quick, so we pop some hay stacks between the camera and the sun and have him sit on them. we get this...
That was shot with at about 16mm hence the distortion. Not bad for starters. I like the lens flare though it made it impossible to focus seeing the sun was in my eye. This is a two light set up if you count the sun. There was a speedlight fired into a reflective umbrella at top camera left. I liked the set up so I shot a few more.
Well, the sun went down and I had little ambient light to work with. Sad panda. Anyway, we decided to go back to where the hay was housed and see if I could get a good shot or two there. With pretty much the same flash setting, we get...
Just for the sake of it, I put them in the grass with him playing a guitar. This one shot involved three lights. the bulb you see, another flash top camera left and another lighting the grass in the background.
These are just a few shots that I liked but there were quite a number that day. Anyway, till next time...
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