Showing posts with label photographic kit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photographic kit. Show all posts
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Beauty
Inspired by '52 Weekend Projects' (and a lack of funds) I have made a beauty dish. I deviated from the instructions for securing the end cap (I just couldn't bring myself to use wire/fishing line) and opted instead for a more sturdy solution; 75mm size 4 bolts and accompanying nuts. I also opted for a white finish over silver or gold for a softer light. I will post the results following this weekends shoots, but preliminary testing has proved extremely positive.
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Wireless
It is confirmed, I am a strobist; I have now got several wireless strobe units to use remotely with my camera - and the potential to add more. Hoorah!
... Of course, I don't actually know anything about light metering, but I get lots of pretty flashes all going off at once around the room, so that's okay. At least now I am not restricted to only being able to move my camera 1 metre away from my flash because of a synch cable - handy when your main subject is an increasingly mobile toddler - although I may simply end up taking high-key and low-key images for the rest of my natural photographic life... Or at least until I read up on how to meter a shoot.
One thing I will have to get used to is a slow recycle time - on half power they are ready to go again more-or-less straight away, but on full power they take about 6 secs. This it something I will have to be aware of as I tend to shoot very quickly and frequently. I currently have an Olympus FL-50; a Sigma (which I used to use with my Canon EOS 1000FN about 10 years ago - and seems to turn itself off if unused for a period of time) and my latest investment: 2 x Speedlite YN460s. The remote transmitter and receivers are the iShoot PT-04s, which are the nice cheap, experimental beginner's option.
There are a plethora of accessories to get now; stands; heads; brollies; flex mounts; softboxes; snoots; barndoors; honeycombs; beauty dishes; globe diffusers; reflectors - but they'll all have to wait until my car is fixed...
... Of course, I don't actually know anything about light metering, but I get lots of pretty flashes all going off at once around the room, so that's okay. At least now I am not restricted to only being able to move my camera 1 metre away from my flash because of a synch cable - handy when your main subject is an increasingly mobile toddler - although I may simply end up taking high-key and low-key images for the rest of my natural photographic life... Or at least until I read up on how to meter a shoot.
One thing I will have to get used to is a slow recycle time - on half power they are ready to go again more-or-less straight away, but on full power they take about 6 secs. This it something I will have to be aware of as I tend to shoot very quickly and frequently. I currently have an Olympus FL-50; a Sigma (which I used to use with my Canon EOS 1000FN about 10 years ago - and seems to turn itself off if unused for a period of time) and my latest investment: 2 x Speedlite YN460s. The remote transmitter and receivers are the iShoot PT-04s, which are the nice cheap, experimental beginner's option.
There are a plethora of accessories to get now; stands; heads; brollies; flex mounts; softboxes; snoots; barndoors; honeycombs; beauty dishes; globe diffusers; reflectors - but they'll all have to wait until my car is fixed...
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