I've visited the Jessie Rogers Memorial Cemetery on a couple of occasions, exploring the photographic potential. There are actually several possibilities here for some nice location/outdoor portraits. I went back today with my light gear, intending to shoot some self-portraits to test out some of the various shooting angles and lighting possibilities.
But I discovered that shooting self-portraits outdoors on a humid Florida day isn't very much fun. After running back and forth to the camera a few times, I was a sweat-soaked, dripping mess.
Fortunately, this beautiful marble sculpture was nearby and sitting in just the perfect spot for some great interplay of ambient and strobe light.
It was an overcast day and the sky above and behind the statue was fairly wide open, with the cloud-shrouded sun providing a very subtle glow to the top and back. Immediately behind my back at the shooting position was a high brick wall, behind which were some fairly thick woods. So the front of the statue was in shadow with a normally exposed background ambient. Knocking the ambient down another stop or so put the sculpture face in to an even darker shadow.
I then brought the exposure of the sculpture face up by placing a speedlight in a 28" Westcott Apollo softbox and set it directly on the ground about 3 feet from the sculpture to camera left.
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