Mike Hibbert Photography

On the 28th May 2009 my friend and housemate Jonny Hines took part in a road cycling race in Exeter. The race took place before the “Tour of Britain” race. He asked me to come along to take some pictures of him racing - however it turned out that due to my complete lack of experience in any sports/action photography they didn’t turn out very well at all… So I made my way home and when he arrived back at the house later that evening I suggested we do some portraits of him - he agreed.

As it was quite late at night we went out in the back garden and I set up my two speedlights.

One SB600 camera left, through a white umbrella set at 1/4 power,
one SB600 camera right bare, 1/16 power.

I set my camera to manual mode and used a 1/200th shutter speed (as that’s the sync speed of my camera). I then took some test shots and closed down my aperture until I was happy with the lighting; f/8.0.

I took a few snaps of him and they looked pretty cool! As I’m in the middle of university exams currently I didn’t have much time to edit etc so all I did in photoshop was some desaturation of certain colours and some sharpening.

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