Monday, July 20, 2009

Under Siege

This is Matt Lockett, director of Bound4LIFE, praying in front of The Supreme Court building on Friday, July 17th, 2009. Follow him on twitter (@mattlockett) or the beard will do something terrible.

Shot with two Nikon SB-28 hot-shoe flashes on an overcast day. One flash was high and camera-right, at 1/2 power, shot through my home-made "lysol grid snoot" and the other was bare-bulb at 1/8 power laying on the ground angled up 45 degrees. All fired with Pocket Wizards and snapped through the 24mm with the d200 for 1/250th of a second at f/16.

It's hard to not only battle the sun, but also the crowds of tourists always streaming in and out of the court. What you don't see in this photo is the family right behind Matt's head. Of course, the beard is a force to be reckoned with anyway, and usually eclipses whatever is near.

5 comments:

  1. Forget the beard. How about those forearms?

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  2. Levi, I relly like the lighting on this photo.. Where was the sun in this picture?

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  3. @Robert: this was during the Noon Siege, so it was high in the sky, but it was really overcast, so I had a certain level of control. It actually started raining a little bit right after I took this photo.

    @Matt: I almost photoshopped some Popeye tattoos on those guns.

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  4. [...] was shot on the same day as Matt Lockett’s “Popeye Forearms” portrait. I only used one light for this one [...]

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  5. [...] is Matt Lockett. He’s the director of Bound4LIFE. You can stalk him on his blog, this twitter, or on [...]

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