“Something is afoot” | 52.2

Sitting at home, draped in Nike shorts and sipping on a funky fresh cup of fruit punch, a disturbing noise could be heard outside the window.  A slight groan. Possibly from one of the undead?  Had I found myself in the middle of the zombie apocalypse?  Something is afoot…  It might be a zombie.  I better grab the shotgun and check it out.

So here is one of the worst setup shots I have taken.  I guess I was more worried about getting the shot the way that I wanted that I didnt think too much about the setup shot itself.    I took this photo in the small wooded area next to my house.  One SB-900 was shot into a collapsed Westcott 60″ umbrella to put a bit more directional light on my and the ground below.  I also fired a bare SB-800 behind me for rim lighting.  The camera was tripod mounted and triggered with a remote.  The Speedlights were fired with CLS.

I learned a good deal about the distance limitations with CLS and being outdoors.  As you can see in this setup shoot, the far Speedlight didn’t even fire here.  I was in a direct line of sight with it and was not too terribly far away.  I had figured it would have fired but it didn’t.  I ended up moving the tripod closer than I really wanted in order to get CLS to trigger the Speedlights.  Yea, yea, I need to pick up some Pocket Wizards or Cybersyncs.