Cool nephew (3 strobes and a bike!)

[Usuqa]

Was down my sisters today taking some photos of my nephew, and this was one of them (the only one ive edited so far).

used 3 strobes, one on a brolly to the right slighty infront of him (around the same lvl to), another on the left inside his chair (he has this rotating char thing that has a big white pull down cover) that i used as a second brolly effect lol and the other directly behind the bike shooting onto the wall.

This is only my second time shooting with 3 strobes, im still trying to get used to it all (hell still getting used to one lol). But its fun and that's the main thing

i then took -3 -2 -1 0 +1 +2 +3 ev copys of it and tone mapped then overlayed the origonal ontop at around 35%, some healing and darkend the shades later and what you see is what i got

*edit* added a new photo to the right of the old one, just to share a little more.. This photo was using one strobe/brolly and was under exposed around 2-3 stops. Selective lighting/darkening and desaturate was all that was done as well as blur the brolly reflection on the right lens and add one to the left.

[candleman]

DAMN thats mad!!
awesome work there buddy!

what did you use to tone map? Photomatix?
i think i need to try this tone mapping thing.. Elements doesnt do it.. (boo hoo)

[ShepherdLady]

LOL, That is just tooooooooooo cute! Well done!

[mad editor]

That is one great shot. Well executed along with great pp work. I'm sure your sister is gonna love that!

[leonaashlee]

Awesome shot....I'm sure the parents would be happy with that.

[klam]

Born to ride!!! Nice lighting

[shmelly]

COOL! amazing capture, I would like to know more about multiple shots.

[kabur]

Cute. looks like a studio shot. Great job! Thanks for sharing.

[Usuqa]

Originally Posted by shmelly

COOL! amazing capture, I would like to know more about multiple shots.

it was muti exposures created from the 1 raw file, i then used photomatrix to join them into a tone mapped version of the image wich i then used along with the original image to get the look.

here's the original
bike small.jpg

here's the tonemapped one (done after i darkened his glass's)
bikesmallhdr.jpg

as u can see the tonemapped one lookes way over saturated but it was a nice higher detailed/lightend version to use as a background to mix with the normal photo for a more subtle effect

*edit*
Added original of the new picture i added to.
liambike small dark.jpg

[westx]

That is a wonderful shot. Great job.