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Strobist ballhead and umbrella test
In Joe McNally‘s CLS video it showed him using a ballhead to align the flashhead along the umbrella stem axis. Made sense that it would distribute the light more evenly; so I bought the rig. Here’s the test results – you decide.
As pointed out in the note above, I forgot the diffuser.
Single SB800 set to TTL into Wescott 42″ shoot through umbrella.
The ballhead is the Manfrotto Lite Tite Swivel+Umbrella Adapter 26
The coldshoe is the Stroboframe Shoe-type Flash Mount Cat. No 300-SHO
I consider this as a ‘nice to know’ experiment only. With the inherent spill associated with shoot through umbrellas and with the difusser on the speedlight the coverage appears to be good. One additional advantage I found with the ballhead set is the ability to quickly rotate the flash body to align the IR sensor to face the camera.
I’ll know better after I field test it.
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Nikon Speedlight umbrella test
When I decided to start playing with Nikon’s Creative Lighting System (CLS) I took this series of photographs to try and understand the difference between a shoothrough umbrella and a reflective one.
I also used this test to learn how to use the Commander mode on my D300 to change the power settings of the Speedlights.
SB-800 on left into 32 inch Photogenic white umbrella: SB-600 on right through 48 inch Wescott umbrella. Controlled by D300 Commander mode.
- Top half of photo: both at half power
- Bottom half of photo: Both at full power.
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WWII Re-Enactors strobist shoot fun
Last weekend our DFW Midcities Strobist Meetup Group had a fun and interesting strobist outing shooting a few local WWII re-enactors. Lynn and Dean are long time players while Zack and Zane were a member’s teenage sons were conscripted into the German Army for the event.
As a photographer I thought I had a lot of gear; man these guys had more toys than any man should be allowed to own. A full sized anti-tank canon, land mines, machine guns, pistols , camouflage nets, manikins, road signs, barbed wire and on and on and on.
10 strobists, 4 actors, 5 acres of land and toys! We had a blast.
See more of my photos, including behind the scenes shots, here. To see all the uploaded photos by members of the groups go here.
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