We got our tree this past weekend, and as is tradition, getting the tree turns into a photo shoot of the girls. I usually shoot this sans flash, and I always end up dealing with harsh shadows as the sunlight comes in through the trees. This year would be different, I thought to myself. Armed with some new strobist knowledge, I was going to use my flash and balance it with the ambient, using the sun as the main light and my flash as fill, and perhaps get a couple of shots using the cross-lighting technique.
Of course, with the girls being 4 and 2, it was pretty much impossible to contain them to really give any of this a decent try. They were running around like crazy, never standing still. Not being anywhere near fast with these techniques and flashes, it was not what I would call a success (though we did get a fantastic tree!) I did manage to get the girls to stand still for a pic by getting them to show their rocks that they had found to the camera. I positioned them with the sun above and behind them to their left, and had a 580EXII directly opposite low, to the front and to their right on my ultra-portable but very expensive light stand (i.e. my wife). I think it turned out OK for my first cross-lighting attempt. Yes, the highlights are blown, but I didn't really have time to check and adjust my settings as they quickly ran off after I snapped the pic.
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