Hiding a shabby track with Strobist lighting

This modest young lady has won 107 sporting medals plus a Squadron sword and I needed a shot that was a bit special for the story. We went out onto the track but that was a bit shabby so we found the best spot that we could and laid the medals out.
In order to hide the condition of the track I underexposed the ambient by 1.5 stops and selected Tungsten colour balance on the camera. This would make the track dark and blue making it recede (hopefully).
I then used a full CTO on the main flash (Canon 580ex) to the left of camera. As it was windy I used a bare flash rather than a shoot through brolly.
I then placed a second flash (Canon 430ex) on the ground, behind the young lady, zoomed in to 105mm.
These were sync’d with Elinchrom Sky ports.
This lighting managed to hide the shabby track and make our subject look like the hero she really is.

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