Basking in the Evening Sun

Here's my son, hanging out on the couch, catching some evening sun. The warm glow and angular shadows across his face, as he contemplates the three poops he took.

Actually, he's not basking in an evening sun. The couch is relatively far from the window and doesn't really face the evening sun at all. I actually fixed my stupid Chineese flash triggers by buying a new battery (not that I don't plan on replacing them still), so I used my flash to create some "sun" for my son.

I zoomed my flash head all the way in (105mm) for hard shadows and used a 1/2 CTO gel to warm up the light. Here's basically the same image taken with available light.



I totally stole this idea from Joe McNally, and not ashamed about it. If you're just getting into off-camera flash, I definitely recommend his book Hot Shoe Diaries.