Top of the World ; Photoshoot

Saturday 9th August, Barrikadnaya Building, Moscow.

Last Saturday me and Aida met up our friends Martina, Daniel and Patrik at Patriks appartment for a photoshoot, that we all just did for the fun of it.
Its a great opportunity to really try out your strobes, test different setups and get to know and learn your gear, BUT offcourse allso meet friends and have a good time!

I brought my Elinchromes with me, aswell as the Nikon D3 with fullloaded batteries and an empty CF card.
We had a heck of a time i must say, with alot of Prusecco and when those bottles where empty, Martina put her Bacardi bottle on the table.
Wooha!

You can say that we managed to take different pictures in three different sessions with different themes. To be honest none of us really knew exactly what we wanted to achieve, but we had some ruff ideas.

The first pictures out from one of those sessions will be the ones we took on the balcony.
Patrik has an exquisite view over Moscow from there and the weather was not a shame either this day.

Here is the lightsetup i used for the shoot.
I had one person holding the softbox almost infront/above the models.




To work with strobes is not that easy as it seems. Well, the technical things is not a big issue, that you learn quite fast, but how to light an object and how the strobes behaves in different setups and directions takes a while to learn.You also see after a while where and what kind of areas of the object that are in lack of light and could need improvement. (Wich means sometimes you need/would like to buy more accessories...*sighs*)
Anyhow we had a great time and those guys has really great personalities and are suprisingly talented infront of the camera.

Martina took some "Behind the Scenes/In action photos wich you can see below.

Thanks Martina!

Thank you Aida also for helping out with make up, holding the bouncer sometimes and ordering the food. ;)
Love you!


So, here is a few results from this balcony session.
Postprocessed in Photoshop PS CS3.
Hope you like them!

(More to come and also, soon an update from the shoot we had in the hallway!
That one was great, and sweaty!)

For a closer look on all images please visit my Flickr account.

*Recomended as the pics look about strange here.. =( *

http://www.flickr.com/photos/enikone/

Pakka!