Can I ask how you got that in focus !
Super bright modelling lights ?
Mark on the ground ?
Demon eyesight ?
Loads of tries ?
it was light really ?
Small aperture (obvioulsy)
Or what ?
Obviouly thats the sort of thing that MF AF wont handle
is there a fill light or just the key lights
S
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Demon eyesight and extraordinary talent.
Actually he was shot in a Barcelona studio on black with lighting to somewhat mimic stadium light direction and the backgrounds were shot in the Barcelona Stadium during a match prior to the studio session.
The lighting on the main image is 6 lights, profotos, two octobanks and two beauty dishes placed to the side and way behind him and the fill is a series of 4x8 b-board, and a 12x vertical silk with one beauty dish on very low power flight slight fill.
The main image was shot with a P-30+ and Contax on continuous focus and as long as the Contax has some contrast it track focuses very well, always has.
Obviously he's not moving at the intensity he does at the stadium, but even in a studio session he does move very quickly.
For this shoot there were hundreds of people involved, from managers, clients, crew and the pressure and time is intense, so we ran two sessions one on white, one on black and alternated.
Every session I started with medium format to cover the main imagery, then for smaller or faster images used the Nikon D-3 and the Leica, though the hero images were all medium format.
This is 4 1/2 images, 1. Ronaldino and the ball 2. stadium lights, 3. stadium grass, 4. stadium stands, 5. added people to go into the stands. for a graphic effect.
JR
