Sheer Dumb Luck 2: Anna Seniors

These are shots from Anna's senior photo session.  She wanted something more fashion-y looking than traditional and my friend Cal was kind enough to let us borrow his motorcycle for the shoot (and Mike loaned us his Porsche as well).  While shooting in a downtown parking garage, we kept having to pause for people walking off the elevator.  Eventually, on a spur of the moment idea, we decided to incorporate the elevator into the shoot.



The shot below shows what the ambient lighting looked like, very dark inside the elevator and moderate natural light from camera left.  I used a remote flash on a stand in the elevator itself, set wide and guess-timating the power setting.  Lastolite softbox and remote flash from camera right on Anna. 

Since the elevator would start alarming if the doors stayed open more than 20 seconds, we would call the elevator, back the bike in, snap a couple photos, then pull the bike out.  Adjusted settings, then repeated until we got the final shot at the beginning of this post.