Stuart

Ben Grubb has added a photo to the pool:

It's been a while, but here's a new shot for my Castle portraits project.

This is another one of my very good friends from the Castle: Stuart. He's a good guy; a really strong climber and a very good laugh. I do take the piss out of him quite a bit, but he takes it all in good humour (or does a good impression of it) and usually gives back as good as he gets!

He's also really good to climb with as he's a real tenacious bugger and doesn't give up on things when he sets his sights on something, and that helps to keep me psyched. I reckon he should become a route setter coz he's damn good at making up problems too.

I've recently been experimenting with some High Speed Synch setups with my Speedlights with Steve. It has been a real revolution for me, and meant that I could could get this shot the way I wanted it (i.e. wide aperture/shallow depth of field, with flash, shot in the daylight). Very pleased with how it came out.

Strobist:
• Canon 580ex-II on camera bare, on 1/128 power, acting as an infra red trigger.
• Canon 580ex-II camera left on 1/2 into a Westcott Apollo Softbox
• Canon 430ex-II camera right, bare on 1/8 power

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