Sports with Sarah

July now and I'm slowly getting the hang of this, well kinda, makes it easier knowing that no one reads these yet as I am a little new at all this! 

So, I have written myself a list of things I need to blog about to catch up with what I have been doing all things photography. Back in May I was emailed through my model mayhem account by a lovely young lady called Sarah, we exchanged a few emails and booked in a photo shot around the ideas that she had. It was to be a sports / fitness shot so I took the Friday off work and spent the morning organizing everything ready for the shot.

I'd never really planned a shot so well, usually they are very last minute but this was usually with friends so I could leave them hanging round while I get things sorted. I wanted to be more organized and more professional so I had all my gear out where I was going to be shooting and all the props near by and waited for Sarah to turn up at lunch time. 

After a quick intro we got straight in to shooting, Sarah had seen a photo I had taken using a stone wall as a background and wanted to do something similar. This was ideal for me as it was the wall at the bottom of the garden so I didn't have to go very far and if I had forgotten something, I could quickly get it.

Sarah was very enthusiastic and great to work with, I'm not the best at giving direction but she needed very little keeping me on my toes changing positions between the shutter. I took over 600 photos for the day using just a SB-800 and a Lasolite 60cm softbox triggered using my wireless remote.

After the shoot reviewing the photos I wanted to try to create the '300 effect', if your not familiar with this there are loads of videos on YouTube showing you how to do this in Photoshop, I tired it on a few images but was only really happy with it on the image at the start of the article. 

I'd love to be able to post all the images so that you can see them all but that seems a bit to much so if you would like to have a look at the rest head over to my facebook