Michelle and I were meeting up with some friends A&S to eat an early dinner in a hole in the wall restaurant in San Mateo. We thought it'd be a good idea to run the kids at the park lest they start bouncing off the walls. Thinking that the early sunset would provide some nice lighting I decided I would see how simple of a lighting setup I could get away with. So I brought my retro Vivitar 285HV flash, a light stand with an umbrella strapped on and a Canon G9 point and shoot camera. A pair of pocket wizards rounded out the package.
The sun set before we could even get the kids in the car, so rather than shooting in the magic hour, I was photographing in near darkness with some far off park lighting. I could barely set the power settings on the strobe and the camera took several seconds to find focus. Set to ISO 1600 so the park lighting would act as fill, I got a handful of shots before we were bumping into trees, poles and other stationary objects. Ah, baby photography at it's best!
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