Just a Lighting Test Shot, but it Looks like an Advertisement

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 — 1/125 sec, f/8, ISO 800 —
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Lighting Test Shot

ストロボの設定の試し一枚目

入学式から帰って来た疲れた晏人をヘルパーに使わせていただきました。

Setting up a bunch of flash units in the living room to take pictures of
Fumie in her costume for her recent part in her ballet school's production
of The Nutcracker, I asked Anthony to step in so that I could take a
test shot to gauge the initial flash settings I'd guessed at. He'd just come home
from a short day at school and wanted to relax with his ice-cream snack,
so he wasn't really in the mood to be a prop.

I was happy that I'd at least landed in the ballpark for the settings
(they were a bit hot), but this kind of slightly washed out “high key”
look, combined with his ice cream and his general look, make this look
like it could be an advertisement for the clothes he was wearing.

He was wearing sort of nicer clothes in honor of the special
ceremony for the new batch of first graders starting school that day, a very
big event in their life, as it was for Anthony five years ago when Anthony started
school. On this special day, only the sixth graders attend (2nd through
5th have a day off) to welcome the new kids, and while some of the sixth
graders get special
helping tasks, for the most part the sixth graders just wait around on
their feet, so he was pretty tired by the time he got home.