High Speed Sync

Nikon has a really cool feature in their flash system called high speed sync. It allows you to shoot at very high shutter speeds to 'kill' the ambient/background light and therefore control your depth of field with aperture.

This was taken at 1/8000 sec at f/2.8. The subject was sitting indoors with a full daylight background. Normally this would be impossible to balance, but with the high speed sync option it's a pretty simple deal.

If you are a Nikon shooter, give this a try. I'm betting you get some pretty interesting results.

--Steve

Carolina Gas Transmission pt. 4

The CGT People and Places project continues. This time out side at a valve station. Work was being done to run a smart pig through an 8 mile section of high pressure gas pipeline near Aiken, SC. A smart pig is not an animal but rather a highly sophisticated piece of electronic equipment that can perform all manor of analysis on a section of pipe. Launch the pig from point A, retrieve it at point B. Easy right?

After the pigging was complete and everyone cleared out I set up and made this portrait. Lighting set up pretty much the same as the others.

One more and this project is a wrap.

Cheers,
--Steve