It’s not always about the action shots, this shot is one of my favorites from a day in Vancouver with Anthony Boronowski last year (click to see it larger).  It had been a long time since Anthony had done a lot of urban and yet here he was trying to get his 270 on.  There’s so many little thing in this shot that i love.  His expression says a lot but also the severe snow storm that was blowing at the time gives a nicely different look to the image.  The university buildings emerging from the gloom in the background look ominous and you can even see Jeff Thomas from Theory-3 media standing on the roof of the building with his camera ready.  This one shot sums up a whole day; cold, wet, windy and damn hard work.  Making movies isn’t easy.

Strobist info::

The shot was taken with a Canon 1dMKIIN at 1/250, f6.1 and 17mm with a 17-40 f4.0L.  Lighting comes from 4 different sources.  At the bottom of the stairs just out of the left side of the frame is an Elinchrom Ranger on full power on top of an 8ft light stand with a sports reflector on it.  At the top of the stairs just ouf of the frame past the right hand railing is 2 X Vivitar 285s both on half power and running off one pocketwizard.  At my feet is another 285 on half power and on camera is also a Canon 580EX angled about 45 degrees to the left.  The transmitter pocketwizard is attached via a PC cord in this case as the hotshoe is taken up by the canon flash.