I'm still reeling from yesterday's news of Justin Jay's sudden passing, but he was a great drummer who knew that, above all, the beat must go on. So I'm pounding out these next couple blog posts for you. 



Speaking of great drummers, Nathan Hubbard debuted a new math-jazz band at the Kava Lounge earlier this week, called Passengers. The show post will be up later, but I used the band as guinea pigs for my new LightSphere flash. They were very patient with me and gave me a couple different compositions. Having a softer light works well to smooth skin and shadows. The shot above is heavily edited of course, but this light does an even better job in more traditional B&W.



The narrow sidewalk kept me from getting back as far as I would have liked, so tried compositions that kept them close together to avoid huge differences in their relative size, as seen in the first photo. After this shoot, I had the brilliant idea to start using my shutter release on bulb mode to keep the shutter open for as long it it takes for me to pop as many flashes as I want. Most of my shots from this session didn't have the third backlight in them because it took longer than 30 seconds to recycle the flash three times. I won't have that problem again.