Red Star In A Pink Hibiscus
This was taken in our garden this afternoon after the welcome rain.
Lighting stuff. When I first started learning how to use off camera flash, I bought 3 Nikon flashes and used the Nikon Creative Lighting system to manage them. It mostly uses TTL flash and is triggered by the pop up flash on the camera. After a while I started using inexpensive manual strobes and radio triggers - primarily from Yongnuo because I like being able to control my flashes manually, and not depend on the flashes seeing the popup flash from the camera. Also, I can buy 5 or 6 Yongnuo flashes for the price of one Nikon flash. I would only use my Nikon flashes on those rare occasions when I needed TTL flash. However, I'm sometimes frustrated by not being able to use manual strobes and triggers at a shutter speed higher than the sync speed of 1/250 second. Yesterday I came across a hummingbird image from Flickr user Jeff Stamer in which he used nikon flashes to photograph hummers using shutter speeds of 1/8000 second and f22 at iso 200. He had the following sentence in his description "If you would like to take photos like this of hummers, just check out my detailed 'how-to blog" at: www.firefallphotography.com/hummingbird-heaven/". I checked it out, and it made me want to learn how to get around the sync speed limitation. This is one of the first images I've taken using high speed sync, and it opens up a lot of possibilities, particularly since I have the flashes and a camera that's compatible. I'm very grateful to Jeff for being willing to share his knowledge and techniques.
Here's that link again if you're interested:
www.firefallphotography.com/hummingbird-heaven/
For this hibiscus image which was taken in partial sunlight, I wanted a relative large aperture (f7.1) to create bokeh, and that required a shutter speed of 1/500. No problem using Nikon CLS and high speed sync. My nikon SB-600 in an 8.6 inch Lastolite softbox and in TTL mode was triggered by the popup flash on my D7100.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
Red Star In A Pink Hibiscus
This was taken in our garden this afternoon after the welcome rain.
Lighting stuff. When I first started learning how to use off camera flash, I bought 3 Nikon flashes and used the Nikon Creative Lighting system to manage them. It mostly uses TTL flash and is triggered by the pop up flash on the camera. After a while I started using inexpensive manual strobes and radio triggers - primarily from Yongnuo because I like being able to control my flashes manually, and not depend on the flashes seeing the popup flash from the camera. Also, I can buy 5 or 6 Yongnuo flashes for the price of one Nikon flash. I would only use my Nikon flashes on those rare occasions when I needed TTL flash. However, I'm sometimes frustrated by not being able to use manual strobes and triggers at a shutter speed higher than the sync speed of 1/250 second. Yesterday I came across a hummingbird image from Flickr user Jeff Stamer in which he used nikon flashes to photograph hummers using shutter speeds of 1/8000 second and f22 at iso 200. He had the following sentence in his description "If you would like to take photos like this of hummers, just check out my detailed 'how-to blog" at: www.firefallphotography.com/hummingbird-heaven/". I checked it out, and it made me want to learn how to get around the sync speed limitation. This is one of the first images I've taken using high speed sync, and it opens up a lot of possibilities, particularly since I have the flashes and a camera that's compatible. I'm very grateful to Jeff for being willing to share his knowledge and techniques.
Here's that link again if you're interested:
www.firefallphotography.com/hummingbird-heaven/
For this hibiscus image which was taken in partial sunlight, I wanted a relative large aperture (f7.1) to create bokeh, and that required a shutter speed of 1/500. No problem using Nikon CLS and high speed sync. My nikon SB-600 in an 8.6 inch Lastolite softbox and in TTL mode was triggered by the popup flash on my D7100.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422