A soggy engineer

Another shot from the series pertaining to our Innovative Projects publication. This guy did some work on fish ladders: devices that allow fish to swim around a dam in a river or stream. Pretty cool stuff. The concept of the shoot was to have him soaked and holding a ladder. Ok then, I can do that!

Here’s a fun one, of the many
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ISO 250, 1/40sec @ f7.1, 20mm. ambient flourescent gym lighting, with a strobe slightly to camera-left.

here’s the final that was chosen to run with the article. It’s not my fave from the day, but it works best with the layout in the mag. Oh well.
MC_fish-0966-Edit
This has obviously had some post-production done on it. Mostly just a bit of Lightroom crunching, the background zapped out in Photoshop, and the shadow & reflection rebuilt.

ISO250, 1/40sec @ f7.1 18mm. Again, ambient flourescent and a strobe at camera-right.

All in all, this was a very fun day. I scored an assistant for the shoot–a fella from a local photog school (thanks Neil!!). A church gym, a giant tarp taped to the wall & floor, compressed air, water, bubbles, ladders, and an engineer who wasn’t much of an egghead.


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