shooting in an abandond building by the ocean

saycheese76 · Apr 11, 2009

I knew about a bunch of old Navy buildings out on the WA coast, so my friend and I jumped in the car and headed out. C&C welcome and thanks for looking!
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Sherman Banks · Apr 11, 2009

What navy base is this? Sandpoint? Anyways, good shots. I'd maybe like to see the surroundings a bit more lit up but they do look pretty good as they are.

Whidbey Island has some pretty cool bunkers too if you head that far north to shoot. It's a pretty good day trip to hit up Deception Pass and then down to the Naval Base there. They even have a huge cannon.

saycheese76 · Apr 11, 2009

Sherman Banks said:
What navy base is this? Sandpoint? Anyways, good shots. I'd maybe like to see the surroundings a bit more lit up but they do look pretty good as they are.

Whidbey Island has some pretty cool bunkers too if you head that far north to shoot. It's a pretty good day trip to hit up Deception Pass and then down to the Naval Base there. They even have a huge cannon.

Thanks! It is about 20 mi north of Ocean Shores.

EhJsNe · Apr 11, 2009

very well done.
I agree with Sherman Banks that the bankround COULD be lit up more, but they are fine as they are.

Very well done.

Derek Zoolander · Apr 11, 2009

nice shots. could you explain the lighting set up?

saycheese76 · Apr 12, 2009

EhJsNe said:
very well done.
I agree with Sherman Banks that the bankround COULD be lit up more, but they are fine as they are.

Very well done.

Thanks!

Derek Zoolander said:
nice shots. could you explain the lighting set up?

All used an LP120 shot thru an umbrella in close. #1 used an additional LP120 shot thru a little diffuser as a rim light off to the right and behind the subj. I know they're a bit dark on the ambient, but I was going for that. Now that you folks mention it, almost all of my flash stuff is at least 1 stop above the ambient, if not more. I'm a bit of a 1 trick pony in that regard. I haven't been doing much where the lighting ratio is closer. I need to work on using the flash as fill and the ambient as key so it looks natural. The next time I can get someone in front of my camera, I'm going to try using a flash/sun crosslight setup. I got one of my boys to stand still long enough to squeeze a few shots off with that lighting setup, and I was pretty pleased with the result. Thanks again for looking!
Jason