FULLY LIT
Free Range Love
While teaching a master class in the Netherlands, Stefanchik
recruited one of his students’ clients to pose in front of a
weathered tile wall at Zaanse Schans, a working windmill
community. Using two Cheetah CL-360 lithium battery-powered flashes on
13-foot stands on either side of the couple, Stefanchik calls this a signature
shot. A pre-shoot walkthrough allowed Stefanchik to plan where he’d place
his lights down to the height and exposure. “I sketch everything before
I shoot using a livescribe pen that transmits back to my phone,” he says.
“So when the time comes to be creative, I’m not worried about light or
exposure; I get all those variables out of the way before I pick up a camera.”
Although he was happy with the image foul-free, when tourists began
feeding local chickens, the animals couldn’t be contained. Stefanchik
lay on the floor as a student threw cornmeal in front of him and chickens
traipsed in front of his lens. “We call this a ‘photo Jesus moment’ because
we only got one frame that worked like this,” he says.
LOCATION: Zaanse Schans, Netherlands CAMERA: Olympus OM-D EM- 1 LENS: Olympus 25mm f/1.8
EXPOSURE: 1/250th at f/5.6 ISO: 400 POST: Alien Skin Exposure 7 BTS VIDEO: bit.ly/1ca6977
PHOTOGRAPHER LAYING
ON FLOOR
FLASH WITH
10-DEGREE
GRID
CL360
FLASH WITH
10-DEGREE
GRID
CHICKENS
