Someone asked me how I lit these shots I guess I never gave it much thought however it is a nice way to get some great “snap shots”. So here you go. I just used one light for these shots. I used my Sunpack 622 on a radio slave. It's a great big flash and has lots of power but the reason why I used it is the way that it is built I can set it down anywhere without a stand. It's battery grip makes a kind of a stand. That was important because I didn't have the time to set up or test this shot and I didn't want to further the stereo type of camera geek. I found a corner of the room and put the flash down there and aimed it up at the ceiling. I aimed near the middle o the room so the light would rain down at about 45 deg. I needed to pop a few shots to get a good exposure tweak the ISO and shutter till I found a balance between the ambient and the flash. I got ISO 800 f5.6 at 1/60 a second. What is real nice about this light is since it is not on the camera and most of the action is in one place I can shoot away with out much thought to the flash. The Radio slave gives me freedom to move around and as long as I keep the flash behind me and my subjects stay in about the same place I get a real uniform light. The advantage to not having the light on a stand is that I was able to grab the flash and set up when the action moved to another room. Here the flash is to the right of me aimed at the wall and ceiling behind me. I reset the f stop to f/7.1 checked the preview and shot away.
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