Levitation

D40 with 18-55 kit lens. Composite, first image was of me sitting on a stool and second was of background. Lighting info - gridded strobe high camera left pointed at face and strobe through white shoot thru camera right.

Email blogging

This is a test post to see if the email blogging works and what it looks like.
Lighting info - Sb600 camera right through white shoot thru. Fired with CLS.

Nathan

Nathan, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Nathan at the London Strobist meetup - 28/03/09

Strobist - SB600 (with dying batteries) camera left through Lasolite softbox. CTO'd SB800 (I think) camera right firing at the background.

Nadine

Nadine, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Nadine at the London Strobist meetup - the theme was Film Noir.

Strobist - gridded SB800 camera right pointing at models' face.
Snooted Sb600 (?) pointing at the feet. Fired with CLS on TTL.

Also, lots of ambient high camera right. The picture was made under a railway arch - lots of ambient light camera right, almost no ambient light camera left.

Danielle

Danielle, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Same lighting as this photo.

On camera SB24 bounced off ceiling at 1/2 power. Off camera SB26 at camera right at 1/8 power bounced off side wall.

This was taken at the London strobist meet on 22 Feb 09 at the pub before we went out to the location

The Alaskan

The Alaskan, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.
JW joined us (all the way from Alaska) at the London Strobist social on 11 March 09.

Gareth brought his Rayflash ring flash adopter, so we decided to take some test shots. The camera was lent by Huy .

Strobist - SB600 in ring flash handheld fired via CLS. D300 with a Sigma 10-20 lens (also Huys!)

Leake St

Leake St, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Strobist - shoot through umbrella in front of talent (high and slightly right camera axis). sb24 (full power).
1 sb28 and 1 sb24 behind model camera left and camera right.

Taken at teh London Strobist meet 22 Feb 09.

Evelyn II

Evelyn II, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Strobist - 3 lights all through white shoot thru umbrellas.
One high on camera axis, two on either side of mode. Cannot remember the powers on either.

Taken at the London Strobist meetup 22 Feb 2009

Evelyn

Evelyn, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Strobist - 3 lights (clamshell 1/2 at the top and 1/8 at the bottom)
SB600 camera right with a grid spot held by Emil.

Taken at the London strobist meet 22 Feb 2009.

Studying

Studying, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Continuation of my experiments with Photoshop.

Strobist - SB26 camera left at 1/16 on white shoot thru to mimic light from the candle. The flash was restricted by a snoot.

Photoshopped fruit

Photoshopped fruit, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Heavily photoshopped version of this earlier attempt.

I got bored and decided to try and 'improve' the photo.

Strobist - SB24 on white shoot thru camera left.

Manoj

Manoj, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Quick photo taken after work yesterday. This was taken in 15 minutes start to finish. I had some work colleagues assisting.
Strobist - Bare SB24 camera left at 1/4 power, snooted SB26 camera right pointing at face.
It would have been good to get the building behind but it was raining and I could not experiment more.

Omair at tram stop

Omair at tram stop, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Strobist - SB24 at 1/4 power thru shoot thru camera left. Lebanon Rd tram stop behind.
Shot with a 50mm 1.8 at f1.8 on a D40

Tom portrait

Tom portrait, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Bride

Bride, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Setting sun camera right. SB24 at 1/2 power camera left.

Fuming Paulo on forklift

Fuming Paulo on forklift, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Snooted sb24 camera left for lighting face. Another flash (camera left as well to light the front wheel. Flash camera right to light Paulo's back. CTB flash under the forklift. CTO'd flash behind Paulo pointing at cieling.

Sorry don't remember the settings on the flashes as this was a collective lighting effort with Huy, Gareth, Paulo and myself.

Oh and Huy behind Paulo with 'smoke in a can'

Tom sees the light

Tom sees the light, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Tom at the recent London Strobist meet.

Snooted (diffused) SB26 high camera right. lighting Toms face. Gridded (5cm homemade black straw grid) SB24 firing at background high camera right .

Rams in pub

Rams in pub, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Rams at the pub during the last Strobist meetup.

Lighting info - on camera SB24 at 1/4 power fired at ceiling.

The jump

The jump, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Pouring water

Pouring water, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Cricket ball - part II (b)

Cricket ball - part II (b), originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Holding the sun

Holding the sun, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Nieffer - balloon

Nieffer - balloon, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.

Look - no hands!

Look - no hands!, originally uploaded by Masood Sharif.