Had a great shoot yesterday down by a river. Thought I would post the “how to” first. We used two SB800 flash heads. One on the right (held by my lovely assistant) was bounced from a white umbrella. The other, in the upper left was direct flash to the back of the subjects. I was going for a hard light kind of look but you do have options in these types of shoots. If you want to soften the subjects a little more, turn the umbrella stand around and shoot the flash directly through the umbrella. With the back light, you can put a cone around the flash and direct it straight at the subject’s heads as a “hair light”.
I used my Nikon D2X with my 70-200mm lens. Most of the shots were taken from about 20 to 30 feet away, at a high shutter speed so I could blur the foreground and back ground a bit. I will talk more about the settings when I post follow up photos.
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