Last friday, me and my friend conducted a photoshoot by the theme of “Vampire vs Slayer”. The shoot idea was from them, they asked me to take photograph for it. We have two model dress up as Vampire and Slayer. It was amazing.
Technical Specs
I use my loyal Nikon D80 with 18-135mm kit lens. Planning to replace this one with the 18-200mm VR, but still haven’t got the chance. For the lighting, I set the built-in flash in commander mode, with SB-900 and SB-600 as the slaves. Have some trouble triggering it, as sometimes it fires and sometimes it doesn’t. Might consider getting wireless module in the future. Lucky we have two people to help to hold the flash. All the photos were taken at 1/5′ ISO 200 with varying aperture. Turns out it isn’t a really good decision by me. If I were to use ISO 800-100, the background lights will get into the image and give better context of the graveyard.
Enough babbling, lets get to the photos!
The make up was totally done by the models. Truly awesome. We also used some fake blood drops on her mouth. This photo scream SCARY!
Lighting 1: This photo is lit by one light from right side and the built-in flash. For some reason the left flash didn’t fire, but it turns out alright.
Photo 2: The Vampire parrying attack
Lighting 2: SB-900 pointed down on the right side to light up the grounds and the grave. SB-600 pointed up on the left side to give a little bit detail on the shadow.
Photo 3: Victory for the Slayer... unknowingly...
Lighting 3: One light from left side pointing to the big cross, and one light from right side of the models.
Photo 4: The wounded vampire crawl back to her tomb to recover and prepare for revenge!
Lighting 4: Using only one light from the front to light the tombstone and the model.
Photo 6: The vampire is ready for revenge!
Lighting 5: Easy one light from the left side.
Photo 6: Climax finale, Victory for the vampire
Lighting 6: One light to flash the background leaves and another one from the front pointing at the models.
Honorable Mention: Behind the scenes, feeding the vampire :p
What do you think? Please take your time to comment and critic my photos 
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