Silhouette AND Reveal @ The College Football Hall of Fame Grand Opening

Nikon D4, 14-24mm, ISO 100, ƒ/8, 1/200

Today I covered the Grand Opening of the College Football Hall of Fame downtown in Atlanta Georgia. Here are a couple photos from today.

To me there is a HUGE difference between this photo above and the one below. Don't you agree?

Nikon D4, 14-24mm, ISO 100, ƒ/8, 1/200—off-camera flash using the Neewer TT850 flash & Neewer 433MHz Wireless 16 Channel Flash Remote Trigger with flash at Full Power

I think your eyes go to the cheerleaders faces a lot more with the flash than in the top photo where I believe the background draws your eyes first.

I like keeping my flash off-camera all that I can and my assistant is holding the flash off to my left and the Cheerleaders right.

Here are more examples of using the same technique. The only thing I am watching is keeping my shutter speed sync below 1/250 since I am using the Neewer flash, but can shoot 600 full power shots on one fully charged battery. I carried a second battery and barely had to use it.

Nikon D4, 14-24mm, ISO 100, ƒ/11, 1/200—off-camera flash using the Neewer TT850 flash & Neewer 433MHz Wireless 16 Channel Flash Remote Trigger with flash at Full Power

Chick-fil-A is the major sponsor of the College Football Hall of Fame and were there giving out samples of their new grilled nuggets. It took me a while to find someone with a full tray, because they were going so fast at the event.

Here I wanted to capture them giving them out and the CFHOF behind them.

Nikon D4, 14-24mm, ISO 100, ƒ/11, 1/200—off-camera flash using the Neewer TT850 flash & Neewer 433MHz Wireless 16 Channel Flash Remote Trigger with flash at Full Power

Both the Georgia Tech cheerleaders and the lady sampling the grilled nuggets were in the shade and I "Revealed" them with the flash or they would have been a "Silhouette."

Nikon D4, 28-300mm, ISO 125, ƒ/8, 1/200—off-camera flash using the Neewer TT850 flash & Neewer 433MHz Wireless 16 Channel Flash Remote Trigger with flash at Full Power

The stage where speakers like Bill Curry and Mayor Kasim Reed spoke was split lighting their faces. One side in direct sunlight and the other shade. Using the same small hot shoe flash I had my assistant stand straight in front of them and basically giving them a classic fill light.

Nikon D4, 28-300mm, ISO 160, ƒ/8, 1/200—off-camera flash using the Neewer TT850 flash & Neewer 433MHz Wireless 16 Channel Flash Remote Trigger with flash at Full Power

For my departing shot of the day I saw the ESPN College Game Day bus, but to show the College Football Hall of Fame behind it was difficult the side of the bus was in shade, but the CFHOF was in direct sunlight. I just put the flash on the ground near the bus [I let my assistant go just before I saw this] and on full power I was able to light up the Sports Anchors of the show on the side of the bus. A week from today they will be transmitting inside the CFHOF during the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game between Alabama and West Virginia.

Why did I use flash so much today? I knew there were be a LOT of media there. My client will be able to see their coverage as well as mine. 

Like the game of football I needed to win the quality coverage contest and cannot afford to ever have others out do my coverage. I can afford for them to match it, but I can't afford other media to show a better coverage and I continue to be hired by clients.