On my recent trip to New York, I got a chance to just sit and relax in Time Square. New York, any amazing place as it is, Time Square is just magical part of the city. You can just sit and watch people all day long and never get bored. This time I travelled with just one Canon G10 point and shoot camera with me to shoot with. While I was sitting and just watching the happenings around me, I noticed that the light in the Time Square is just magical. There is no direct sunlight in the noon time. The Time Square is surrounded with huge sky scrapers and lots of huge advertisement billboards. However, there is sunlight reflecting into to the Time Square by the very same sky scrapers which are actually blocking the direct sunlight. I quickly found out that this reflective light is just pure bliss pouring in for amazing pictures. You have to chase this light all over in the Time Square.

All of these following pictures are taken with the beautiful reflective sunbeam illuminating the faces of the people walking into the light and I was just sitting there with my camera. I essentially used very expensive light reflectors in the form of New York high rise buildings.

About two weeks ago, I got the chance do something out of the norm of my shooting style. I am mostly the natural light and strobe light photographer. This time I get to shoot using constant light with SpiderLite TD5 fitted with octa softbox. I tried different placements, but the most pleasing one was when I put them in clamshell configuration. I took the first shot and the results were amazing. The only thing that I kept reminding me is to hold still while taking shot (I was shooting with Nikon 80-200 F2.8 on my Nikon D300s body) since a little motion in the shot was causing blur in the picture. I think I like what I got from these lights. Here are few headshots from the day.

This is the only shot with Nikon Sb800 in Apollo 28” softbox.