I have been wanting to do a shoot with Vince and Lada after meeting them at Sakura Con ’10, and as Summer came and they moved back to Pacific Northwest temporarily, I took the opportunity to arrange a shoot with them.
After seeing so many pictures of Lada everywhere on the interweb, I came prepared to be blown away by the awesomeness, yet, that wasn’t enough. If you have ever worked with an epic cosplayer before, then you’ll know what I mean.
But that’s not it.
Vince, being a tech/photo guy like myself, showed me a whole lot of stuff on the tech end, and that’s totally mind -> blown. The wealth of information he shared was too much to detail here, but I can say that I was still in shock hours after the shoot.
My blown mind aside, the shoot was done using Vince’s strobes. We started out using 4, 2 for backdrop and 2 for the subject, slowly migrated to 5 and 6 strobes, just to try out different types of setup. This setup itself was enough to overwhelm me, as I have only worked with 1 strobe so far. And with Vince showing me all of his photographic accessories, I realized after the fact that I was so mesmerized by all the little gadgets that I forgot my main goal was to take pictures of Lada.
I have to say, shooting with multiple strobes and with a backdrop is a very different experience. Perhaps I was forgiven because I was/am still a noob in this type of photography?
Nevertheless, I had a great time working with Vince and Lada, and I definitely learned a lot of stuff for that session. Not sure how many opportunities I got to work with them as they both have busy schedules, but I do look forward to shooting with them again in the not too distant future.
And it probably goes without saying that I want to improve my photography even faster, eh?