The Fishing Scientist

The Fishing Scientist, a photo by Pat MacInnes on Flickr.

An old shot I unearthed while browsing my archive.

I took this during a trip to Berkley's Gulp bait factory in southern Holland. This was a press trip so there were all sorts of people who were trying to get shots of the chief scientist called Franz (or it could have been Frank - he dazzled me with science!).

Because of the melee of journos all wanting to get something for their mags, I had to work quickly so just set up an SB-800 in SU-4 mode behind him, with an SB-800 from camera right trigered by an Elinchrom Skyport. The shoot took about three minutes from start to finish before we headed out to the coach back to the airport.

Can't rememebr the settings but it was all manual obviously.

*Nikon D2x
*Nikon 12-24mm f/4
*ISO 200
*1/100th @ f/8

Although it did the job, this is the kind of shot I look back on and think "I wish I'd done it differently". The shot is fine in general and fitted what the mag wanted, but I know now that there needed to be more fill on the labels, the ambient needed to be dialled down in the background, and a gel on the rear flash could have given it more impact.

Still, it was true 'on-the-fly' indoor shooting, something I don't get a chance to do very often....