Project 52, week 40: Puppeteer. I’m catching up on posting. Arno and I did shoot this photo on time, but because of the Kick-In we didn’t have any time to edit and compose it. (Shooting it took all evening, mostly because we didn’t really have enough room for our lighting setup.) The idea was that Arno the puppet is fed up with his puppeteer and has cut his ropes in protest. We’re not completely happy with the composition, lighting, post production, background, or modeling (i.e. the image), but we’ve learned quite a lot about how to (not) make these kind of images.
Setup:
Puppet
key: Sigma EF-500 DG Super @1/8, 105mm, facing subject from above, snoot
fill: Nikon SB700 @1/8, 28mm, camera left, through 45″ umbrella
rim: Canon 580EXII @1/64, 50mm, behind subject right, bare
Puppeteer
key: Nikon SB700 @1/8, 50mm, camera left, through 45″ umbrella
cross+hand: Sigma EF-500 DG Super @1/64, 105mm, subject right from above, snoot
rim: Canon 580EXII @1/64, 70mm, behind subject right, black foamy thing All flash guns triggered using Cactus V5.