Another TOPE, another chance for a technically challenging shot. :) The main challenge of getting these pictures
right, was having to guesstimate the exposure, as I do not have a flash meter.
I set the strobes roughly at 45 degree angles from the subject and then played around with various gear,
exposure and flash frequency combinations. I did not keep good notes, so I do not remember anymore what the
exact exposure was I used for this shot, but I do remember that the DOF was very shallow, so I was probably
shooting around f2.8 in this picture. The strobes can be set to have a frequency between 0 - 10 Hz, and I played
a bit with setting them at various frequencies. The frequency for this picture was, I believe, around 5 Hz, and
in this shot I set the frequency of the strobe that was on the right slightly higher than the one on the left
(as can be seen by the difference in the light levels on both arms). This was done intentionally to get slightly
different light levels in the shot (in some other pictures I played around with bigger differences between the
frequencies, but I think the balance in this shot works pretty well). I wanted to use Provia F for this shot,
because of its very good reciprocity characteristics (up to 128 seconds, vs. the 10 seconds of E100VS), but I was
out of it, so I made sure the exposures did not last longer than 10 seconds.
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