Andriy Zolotoiy Photography Blog

Over a year ago I shot very interesting duo The Glowsticks. New band manager recently contacted me to shoot them again. The band has new members now and getting them all together for the photoshoot was quite a lengthy process. We started the shoot later in the day than we expected, surroundings were getting dark pretty fast as we were shooting under Gardiner expressway downtown Toronto.

This was first photoshoot where I used new Nikon D7000. Camera proven to be working properly without a hitch. I used 85mm f/1.8 for individual shots and 16-35mm f/4 for group photos. Everything was lit with two SB-600 flashes in TTL mode fired via built-in commander.

I shot these images for a young singer Tiana’s promo campaign. The edgy looks achieved with one AB800 with 8.5” reflector. At the beginning of the shoot wind toppled my strobe with umbrella; luckily strobe survived but umbrella went to dump. This wasn’t an easy shoot and we weren’t getting the right looks for quite some time but finally our model relaxed a bit and we’ve got the expected results.

I was shooting two crazy guys from The Glowsticks band yesterday around the Toronto Docks area. We were blessed with the weather which almost never happens. The shoot went smooth, police stopped by but didn’t bother much. I used my favorite strobist/mcnally techniques for the shoot since we were moving around the area a lot and heavier firepower would slow down our schedule quite a bit.

Here is one shot right out of the camera. Shot at 16mm f/10 1/250 sec ISO200, bare SB600 at full power camera left was triggered via built-in commander on D700.