Dancers

Hi, I’m a 75-year-old retired sheet metal worker. I’ve been working at learning photography for the last two or three years. I found this blog today and thought I would give it a try.

I picked up a new light a couple of weeks ago. It’s the Flashpoint XPLOR 600 HSS TTL, long name but great strobe, it came with the R2 controller.

I’ve only used it once and then only in the manual mode. I do volunteer photography for a couple of origination here in town. One of those organizations wanted photos of some dancers to go on the cover of there in house magazine. Below is one of the photos and a lighting diagram. 

The two dancers didn’t want to pose, they wanted to dance freely and if I saw a pose that I liked I was to yell “FREEZE” and they would stop for a photo. But of course, by the time I yelled and they stopped it was too late for what I saw.

So, I set my lights and camera to f/8, my shutter speed to 1/200 (highest sync speed on my camera), my AF-mode to AL-Servo and drive-mode to single shooting. Set my auto focus to single point and moved the point to the left and up a little. I would hold the focus point on the male dancer and take a picture every two or three seconds. All of my lights were Godox with big fully charged batteries and were able to kept up with me and the camera. The flash was enough to freeze the action in most cases.

If anyone actually reads this I would welcome suggestions as to how I could have done it differently.