Shoot, it was a couple years ago, but by my best recollection it was pretty simple: I know it was a Nikon D200 at f5, ISO 160 from the meta data. It’s shot with the 16mm fisheye, which on that body would have been somewhere around a really wide 20mm (crop factor). If I remember correctly, it’s shot with a 400 watt second Q-flash running out of a Norman pack, which is over to the left, of the loop, on the other side (off to the side of the guys standing, but up probably 6 feet high). On my right I’m pretty sure there is Sunpak 433. I’m not sure what the power was, but the q-flash in the back is running more power than the fill light on my side, which cuts him out a bit. Pretty simple set-up.
The hardest part about looking back at this shot is that Stephen and I reviewed them on my computer in the Emergency Room in Riverside. About 20 minutes after the photo, Kevin Robinson had a fluke over the bars crash on one of the big sets in back, and went straight to his head. He thought he felt something crunch, so they took him to the hospital thinking he could have cracked something in his neck. Fortunately he was pretty much okay aside from a severe neck strain. Then a few months later Stephen was on the other side of the equation.
I just sent off a nice 16×20 print of this to Stephen, matted and framed to about 20×28-inches. He should have it Monday, so hopefully he is stoked.