Lighting Up Blacklisted

I’ve really been enjoying using the Nikon wireless flash system and today I had a chance to try something different during my shoot with the band Blacklisted.

For the first setup, I went traditional and used a funky little dressing room at the Knitting Factory here in NYC.

But then I took the guys outside and gave each one of them an SB-800 flash unit. After explaining to them which part had to be facing me (the IR sensor) and which part had to be facing them (the flash head), I let them aim the lights however they wanted.

We were in the middle of the street so the shoot was interrupted about a dozen times for cars, but it gave me a chance to shake up the positioning each time. By the end, I had them bunched up pretty closely and I think it made for an interesting photo.

Not too long ago, getting the correct exposure on each person would have been a nightmare. But the Nikon TTL wireless flash system makes this shot incredibly easy — as long as you watch out for cars.

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