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UW Photo Club event. See www.flickr.com/photos/uwphotostefan/ for some more by me, and the group pool for more by the other club members who, unlike me, know what they're doing.
The beauty of digital photography is the way you can do some experimenting without tossing away a bunch of film. This time around we were at Longwood Gardens and decided to fool around with some fill flash technique. On a previous trip, I had used a radio trigger to fire the manually controlled flash unit. For some reason the radio triggers wouldn't work so this became our chance to try the optical trigger built into the flash attachment.
Firing the unit optically involves using the flash built into the camera to tell the off camera unit when to fire. I didn't want the on camera flash to light up the image so I set it's power level as low as possible. That way, most of the light hitting the subject would come from the off camera flash unit giving me control of the intensity, distance, and direction of the light.
These panels were put together to record what we did AND as a way of sharing the techniques with fellow photographers.
Image on Left:
43in Westcott umbrella, camera left with LP160 flash, optically triggered with SB-400 on camera pointed at the ceiling.
1/160 f7.1
Image on Right:
Ambient light from windows and curly bulbs.
1/13 f4.8
I've been excited that I can take these kinds of pictures now!
This Was Exactly How It Was Took...No Photoshop Or Any Special Effects.Taken At Pennington Flash Country Park,Off St Helens Road
Leigh,
Greater Manchester.
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Model: Will
Camera: D70
Lens: 50mm f/1.8
My first attempt at flash photography. Used my friend's SB600 off camera, hand held.