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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.
Shot with a Brownie Reflex modified to use 35mm film. Attached Brownie flasholder is modified to use an electronic flash. Shot on new Fuji ISO 200. 12/29/11.
It's one of my favorite nieces, Gianne. She is really fun to hang out with. Despite our age differences, we get along so well.
This photo is part of a photo project I did (its lame, but here it goes, www.tinyurl.com/photoproject1 ) I took 26 shots of her saying each letter of the alphabet instead of "cheese", now that's cheese! haha
this was letter "E" btw