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Vampirism Unleashed! Experiment Successful

by Victor Augusteo on May 18, 2009

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: 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 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.