Using Strobes Outside At Night

Curious about how other folks are using their strobes when they’re working at night in the great out of doors? Start with Chase Jarvis, who uses high-speed strobes and fast-moving skiers to create really cool sequences of action sports. This is the stuff he shot when recently on location in New Zealand for Sandisk. What I think is so neat (and practical) is the testing he did at home in the studio so he knew exactly what to expect when he arrived on location. At the opposite end of the outdoor strobe spectrum is Spanish photographer Jose Luis Rodriguez who created a camera trap to photograph a rare Iberian wolf. The image of the wolf jumping a fence, which earned Rodriguez the Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the award, was created with an infrared light trigger positioned to fire the strobe at the precise moment to create the composition Rodriguez had in mind. See the shot, and read more about how it was made, at the United Kingdom’s Natural History Museum online. (While you there, you can read up on next year’s contest, too.)

Chase Jarvis

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