Few days before the end of term two for my photography class, I was told that if I don’t hand my assignment in, it will never be marked. Although a lot of people skipped this assignment, I thought it’d be fun to do. It was a shoot for a setup crime scene. After buying some yellow crime tape from the nearby dollar store, I called up two of my buddies, David Kim and Kevin Lee, to help me out. To make matters simple, I decided to shoot near my place around a “loading bay” (I don’t even know what to make of it.) Since crimes usually happen at night, I also had to mimic the night effect by using a faster than usual shutter speed. Couple that with a snooted Nikon SB800 flash, and I got myself a pretty darn good setup for doing dramatic mood shoots. Kevin, to my surprise, brought an beaten-ed up bat. (Don’t ask me where he got that and he looks pretty dangerous with that thing.)
As I said, the primary lighting was from a single strobe. Since I used Nikon cameras, it made my life easier by having CLS (Creative Lighting System). For the lens, I used a Nikon 50mm f/1.8. Not only is this lens inexpensive, it’s also very sharp and distortion free when compared to my zoom lenses.
The photo above the text (with Kevin holding the bat) is not upload to Flickr. The reason is that I reached the limits of CLS. When CLS fires the pre-flash, it hit the garbage container and caused a hot spot right in the center of the frame. Rather than throwing it away, I decided to pull a Dave Hill effect on it. And voilà…
My favorite out of the shoot.
Yup, every assassin wear these gloves.
You can’t escape you know. The fences only lead to the garbage containers.
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