How I Got the Shot: Featuring Kurtis Lamberton
"I constructed this image using a three light setup. I only had access to one Profoto Acute B2 battery pack and flash head, and because I wanted to light all three of my subjects individually I knew I had to composite three images together. The main exposure was done of the sniper in the front left part of the frame. I used a Canon 5D Mark III with a 24-105 f/4 lens supported by a Giottos carbon fiber tripod and ball-head. My settings was a focal length of 24mm with an aperture of f/8 @ 1/200th of a second at 200 ISO. It was about 7:00 pm on a summer night so I had a nice natural rim light to help seperate each subject from the background. After I got the frame I wanted of the sniper, I made sure my camera didn't move on the tripod when I changed the position of my softbox to light the rifleman on the right. I didn't have an assistant so all my exposures were done with a wireless remote that I triggered while holding the softbox to light each soldier. The funniest part of the whole shoot was that the smoke bomb we used lasted for more than two minutes and I was convinced we were going to set the dry wheat field on fire. Not to mention that the location was literally 30 feet from a major road, so with billowing smoke and three men in camoflage holding large rifles, its no wonder that we got some strange looks from the people passing by." —Kurtis
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