Siddhartha Gautama

Sigh... it has rained all day in Calgary! Yesterday was one of the worst storms to hit Calgary in many years. In fact all the records were shattered, man hole covers were blown off, streets were flooded and lightning has struck 4 houses and 2 golfers. So I guess my picture of the day will have to be indoors today.

This is a statue of the SUPREME Buddha Siddhartha Gautama I found in my friends house. After reading the Strobist: Lighting 101 blog I decided to try my hand at lighting objects with multiple flash lights.

For this shot I utilized both my flash lights the SB-600 and SB-800 and my 50mm 1.8 (at last). Both flash lights were set on manual power with the master(sb-800, attached to the hot shoe) powered at 1/128 and the slave (the SB-600 located to the left) powered at 1/32.

The master light was pointed to the ceiling to light the hair while the slave was aimed at the left wall to light the left side of the statue.

The Nikon creative lighting system is totally awesome, I am thinking of getting another SB-600 (if the price is right! GOOOO BARGAIN FINDER) I hope next time I have a real model so that I can use my umbrellas.

50mm, F4.5, 1/2, ISO 200 + Wireless remote.