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If you go down to the woods today
You won’t find me, because I’m not there anymore.
I was in a wood (well a copse really) recently for a commercial shoot for a client and just thought I’d post one image as it was interesting to set-up.
The client works with forestry authorities and the timber industry to maximise the production from trees, using lasers to forecast the best yield and cutting method.
The set-up was to create an image with living trees, cut wood and a laser and the tricky bit was to light up a small area of wood which was pretty gloomy.
I used an Elinchrom Ranger Quadra as the main light (nice and handy, as the nearest power supply was about 3km away), which lit up the front part of the image nicely, but the trees in the background were in deep shadow. Hidden behind the two outside trees in the image then are 2 580EX flashes fired with Pocket Wizards. The flashes are laying on the ground, with highly sophisticated direction pointing aids (sometimes known as twigs) and lighting up the trees at the back:
TTFN
