As a Wakefield commercial photographer, I get to shoot a wide variety of subjects and today was certainly a fun and enjoyable one. I was down at the Yorkshire Air Ambulance base at Nostell to photograph the new YAA mascots for publicity material and the weather was perfect for the shoot. The costumes were superb and will be a big hit with the children when they go out on the road but for today’s shoot, I wanted to get them with the air crew and the helicopter. We headed out onto the helipad and I used a Profoto B1 on full power to overpower the very bright sunshine. I shot with the subjects standing against the sunlight to give me a nice backlight and then, by shooting without the diffuser on the octa, I punched a massive amount of light into the subject to get these studio effect portraits
