Copyright 2010 Matt Farrington

Tonight I headed out to Paradise Springs in the Kettle Moraine State Forest.  I left home around 9:00 P.M. without a plan and that kinda shows in the resulting photographs.  The above shot is the spring house, lit with to SB-600’s.  One in the structure, and the obvious one on the left.  I also used an LED worklight to add a touch of detail in foreground.

Copyright 2010 Matt Farrington

This one is also lit with two flashes.  One is about three feet away, camera left.  The second is about fifty feet away on a pier, lighting the tree on the right.  I set the shutter speed at 1 sec. for both of these shots, for no particular reason.  There really wasn’t any ambient light to worry about, and I thought a slower shutter speed would give me a little motion blur, because it was pretty windy.  But, even at full power the flash duration was quick enough to freeze the motion in the trees.

Copyright 2010 Matt Farrington

This one here was a 30 sec. exposure.  The sky glow is from the town of Eagle, about 1.5 miles away, but I don’t care much for it.

*A note to both my readers*

I’ve noticed in all my posts thus far, that the photos appear a bit on the dark side, but if you click on them so they open up in a shadowbox, the brightness looks more like what I’m seeing in Lightroom.