Today I was looking through my iPhoto library and came across a picture I had taken inside a cave in Puerto Rico. The photo seems simple enough, just any other tourist picture, but a lot more thought went into this shot than you would think and all the brain power went towards the lighting! In total, it took about 15 minutes to get this picture right because we had to continually change where the light was coming from and the intensities in which it was lighting everything. We ended up using all of our headlamps to light the photo from the front and sides at different angles so that the formation could be illuminated, but I was still a silhouette. We had a million lights going and it wasn't as simple as using flash. To catch the water falling onto the formation we couldn't just use flash, we had to light it from underneath and behind. In all, I think we used about 5 different headlamps. But there is one lighting detail that really allowed me to maintain my silhouette... I had a portable flash in my right hand that I had to manually set off during the exposure so the whole formation could be lit. It took a lot of teamwork to get this shot the way we wanted, but in the end, it worked out pretty well.
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