Strobes in a landscape setting
What do you do when you’ve grown tired of samey landscape shots, yet your mate is still dead keen to go out and shoot the same old stuff…
Well I decided to take 3 strobes and light stands and use the landscape as a backdrop for a few shots of Dave – in this case it was a field of oil seed rape near Ferrybridge in west yorkshire. Set up literally 20 yards from the road as we’re quite lazy.
One thing I realised quite fast was that to get the landscape in to the shot, I had to use a landscape lens, so the 17-40 was the main one. Then decided to shove a polariser on there to lessen the light coming in AND make the sky deeper blue. Here are a few of the results, quite amusing seeing a hard looking character like dave surrounded by flowers 
Found myself shooting at 1/160th cause the radio transmitters I used started to cock up at 1/200th, leaving shadows at the bottom of the shot. The polariser really helped reduce the ambient light so I could shoot at about F6.3 and lower the power on the flashes.
I’ve got a few all in one white suit thingies which I want to use too – putting gels on the flashes would colour the suits and make for something a little odd, so may do that in a field like this at some point.
The flowers do suit him… Did you gel any of these?