Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Certainly look to be rather bright lights! http://www.axstalphoto.com/SimpleViewer_v17/index.php?album=X_BEHIND_the_SCENE&PHPSESSID=nma97a9i71hc9mt0p9odfriu96 john ________________________________________ Photographer Claes Axst?l is in a picture of himself holding with huge gloves on location with an S2 underneath it attached a Kenyon Stabilizer KS-6 gyro. Very James Bond very Man from U n c l e which has been picked up by Leica in its S2 per motions I ran across last night late. Checking it out I get amongst others: Airborne flash photography in China. Shots of jets taken from other jets against a setting sun sky without the flash the plane would be a silhouette. More than justifying the techniques which could otherwise be thought of as real controversial technique. But he's also shooting down at night at high speed motorboats. Freezing them with the flash blink which tends to go off much faster than any top shutter speed. Shooting flash nowadays because of digital for many things is seems to be being phased out but this guy is coming up ways to phase them into areas they'd not been used before. Its harks back to me O. Winston Link shooting trains at night with an original setup of flash bulb guns. Another equal controversial choice is his shooting medium format digital in situations where everyone else is shooting full frame. But his most important controversial gear technique choose is the use of the Leica S2. And you can see how you'd really not want to be using a digital Hasselblad in these situations the design of the S2 opens this up. Arial photography. I wonder what percentage of medium format digital photography is being done not tethered in the studio? I'd love to know what flash he's using. I'm thinking my SB-800 might actually be up to the task of what he's doing. It certainly cost me a bundle a few years ago but is about the same weight as my camera. And really drags me down . I'm going to do some pushups and drag it out.