strobist wannabe
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I’ve been reading Strobist for a long time now but I’ve never had a real chance to actually play with what I’ve learned. Last week I went out on the first photo related purchase in almost two years and I got myself a 580EX flash. It ain’t cheap that’s for sure… But, my excuse, or rather – shove over the ledge – was a wedding. Not mine (thankfuly). No, I was delegated the role of photographer at my uncle’s wedding yesterday and there’s no way you can do something like that without a flash. So I went broke on one and borrowed another (550EX) to use it in slave mode when I need it. My brother acted as the lighting assistant for most of the day. But this post really isn’t about the wedding so more on that sometime in the future (if they let me put anything online).
Today I had to return the things I borrowed, but before doing that I had a really quick photo session with two of the pups. I only got to take about 20 shots before “the assistant” had enough so there’s plenty of room for improvement.
I improvised a studio with 4 shoe boxes, 2 styrofoam blocks dressed in black t-shirts, 1 styrofoam bouncer, 1 old calendar, 550EX at 1/4 power in slave mode bounced into the paper and the 580EX mounted on the camera and bounced left into the styrofoam at 1/4 power. I tried to prevent light spill on the background as much as I could but as I said, the setup was far from perfect.
Now I have to figure out how to do the same thing, or better, with only 1 strobe…
setup shot
It was fun though…
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