Chinese Dancer + Commercial Session

Cecilia is a sweet girl and professional Chinese dancer. She will be a spokeperson of a new series of jewelery (Christine Jewellers Ltd.). Today, we worked with her for 2.5 hours. This photo session was the part 1 of the whole assignment. You will see what we are going to do in the next month.

Although the location wasn't a real stage, we made it look like one. Actually, it was a martial art gym with mirror on wall. Dramatic and spot lighting were the key to achieve the visual effect. Action shots were done with my 1D Mark II N and the rest were shot by Jessie's 5D Mark II. I'm pretty happy with the light and versatile EF 70-200mm f/4L IS. It's a razor sharp lens with light weight. This time, we mixed Pocket Wizard triggered strobes and ST-E2 (E-TTL II) triggered strobes. The effect came out great. However, I found my blue gel got a hole (burnt by 580EX II) afterward.

Next week, we will jump back to wedding related session.

Raymond
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After you look at all photos, it's time to show you the reality... The wide wall mounted mirror was located at the background. Sunlight came in from everywhere through windows.