Shooting silhouettes in the pool – Toucan Hill – Mustique

Shooting silhouettes in the pool – Serendipity?

So here’s a funny story… It took 1.5 hours to tie off the studio flash unit with cords to the building, to make sure that it didn’t fall in to the pool.

The lighting technician is holding the stand, and the first assistant is holding me, and I am keeping the camera out of the pool.

We had meticulously planned this whole shot…

Perfect sunset? check – Make Up? check – Hair? check – Models? check – Flash powered up? check – Camera? check – Card in camera? check.

The only problem was that we had assumed that the batteries in the flash sender unit were holding a charge, or, that the spare batteries were not 100 metres away in the camera bag…

Nope! Hadn’t thought of that!

When the flash didn’t fire I looked at everyone else, and they stared blankly back at me. There was a moment of silence and I looked at the shot on the camera’s rear screen and carried on shooting without the flash… Sometimes things happen for the best …Serendipity.

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Silhouettes in the pool – Toucan Hill – Mustique

  © colin anthony photography

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