Love the end result as well!

@Rob: as long as the subjects are unaffected by available light, you can get the shutterspeed as long as you want. They are ‘frozen’ by the short flash for maybe 1/2000 of a second or so.

@Frombrandon: I could have done this without any expensive equipment. If I’d just asked 3 friends to hold a flash and fire it at “3,2,1, go”, it would have worked too. Half a second is plenty of time to trigger a flash manually with some practice.

@Ghislain: I’d rather stay on the ground to take pics

@Pepin: The hand is a great stand-in (now that would be a strange sentence when pulled out of the photography context). Usually there’s no problem with reflections in glasses when the flash is far enough from the camera axis.

@Fabian: I asked the owners of the cars if it was fine with them if I’d put the group on the cars No, the cars belonged to people of the group, so I just asked them to move them.

Did you have the cars towed away?

Greetings

good job!

Nice to see something different this time.. since most of your tutorials are single person portraits.

I just bought the Strobist DVD. I’m glad I did because everything that you mentioned here made perfect sense. If not, then I would just be appreciating your work, without understanding a word you said.

It’s also funny that you do the hand exposure test like what you’ll see often in the Strobist DVDs. Others will think you look stupid, but we can’t ignore the fact that it’s effective.

One thing I was taking note of was the eyeglass reflections which was a concern in David’s tutorial. I guess you had that in mind too since I don’t see it in the pics.

Thanks!