Strobist: Show us how you took it?

[bhursey]

Originally Posted by candleman

the strobe on the right was bare, and had blue gel over it (ok just celofene)
firing down the hallway to get some background detail.. and show off th staris and hallway. the blue gives a "night time" effect

I really like the gel effect. Was this your first use of gel's after talking about it? You really need to buy a swatch book.

[candleman]

na, i've been using coloured filters on them for a while.. just DIY hacked ones tho'
like celofene held over the flash with duct tape.


i once used red CD cover.

i'll definatley order one of those tho' ....probably could have done it this weekend instead of sitting on my hands!

[bhursey]

Originally Posted by candleman

na, i've been using coloured filters on them for a while.. just DIY hacked ones tho'
like celofene held over the flash with duct tape.


i once used red CD cover.

i'll definatley order one of those tho' ....probably could have done it this weekend instead of sitting on my hands!

Order them yet? I want to see some usage..!!!

[candleman]

not yet
hahahaha
been busy.. check out my photostream

[WooD]

This was a group effort. All the strobes not on stands were on the ground pointed straight up. The two in the upper left hand corner had blue gels on them. There were 2 lights behind the dude jumping, but I forgot to add the second one in the diagram. We were using all SB900's except for one 800, and one 600. It sounded pretty cool all of them beeping after each shot.

[Scooter650]

Here's one.



Flash was a Sunpak 383 at 1/4 power shot through umbrella camera left, 5' high.

Exif:
Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

[candleman]

one from the groupshoot i went to last weekend



Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 34 mm
ISO Speed: 100



Strobist:
under open shade of the barn roof...
sb24 high and right in 45" backed softbox umbrella.. about 2.4m high
sb600 on wall behind her (hidden behind the box)
Sb28 balanced on truck to the right, and uses as hairlight..(not a good job of that tho')tractors exhaust formed a flag between camera and flash.

triggered via cactus v4

[natek313]

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[RussHeath]

I became the proud owner of one SB-900 to add to my two SB-600s mid November. I got a chance to use everything for our family Christmas photos.





SB-600 behind them shooting up at a white sheet, SB-900 in a 60 inch phototek softlighter camera right and high (awesome big light with quality similar to an Octa for much less $$$), and one SB-600 low and camera left through an umbrella for fill.

Cool thread!

[BobC]

Can everyone post power settings as well. I'm trying to understand this the strobist thing but am struggling. My light always seems to fall on the subject and the background when I don't want it to. I tried shooting through the umbrella only removing half the black backing to act as a gobo that did not help. Thinking it was my SB600 mounted on camera bouning off the ceiling I tried settin a white board to the subjects left and bouning off of that. That made my pictures dark.
Maybe if I set up the SB600 on its stand up on a table opposite the umbrella. I'll have to give that a try.