Recent content by diogenes

At least with hotshoe flashes, there is a significant trade off between power and flash duration. At full power, a hotshoe flash usually is not any better than a much more powerful cheap studio flash. However, when you dial your hotshoe flash down, the flash duration will be much shorter...

I use 1,5l PET bottles (painted black biut thats just cosmetics of course). Two bottles connected with a short rope already lowers the center of gravity signifficantly and 4 bottles are even better of course. Beside the fact that bottles are cheap, two other advantages are that (in most cases)...

I am currently shooting with two Jinbei Freelander 500 packs (400Ws), great stuff for an "el cheapo" solution! Will now complement it with a Jinbei Delicacy 1200Ws set from the Netherlands (the set comes with two heads plus acessories btw). The main improvement compared to the "RD" series from...

Looks like you wanted to send the background to Nirvana 255 but the background light did produce too much spill which makes your motive look foggy. Try to place any kind of shield between the background light and the camera which helps to prevent the spill. (And do not blast more light on the...

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Got mine here http://flashgels.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2&zenid=rqnejd4kbo6ka1nfh9aqoo2h47 :thumbs:

It is certainly pointless to buy SB600 flashes for off camera work if you don't want to use the nikon AWL and control them from your camera. (The control flash can be set to "--" so it won't have an impact on the exposure.) However, since you can do this in "manual" as well as "TTL" mode and...

Helps a lot, costs almost nothing http://www.flickr.com/photos/laternamagica/3992589241/in/set-72157619330087544/

I would shoot during the day, stopping down the ambient light as described above. In the good old movie days such "night shots" were called "la nuit americaine". - Would also prevent your model from getting a pneumonia in the cold water... In addition you can gel your flash(es) with full CTO...

May be the relatively afordable Jinbei Rail-System would be worth to be given a look: http://www.fotokonijnenberg.nl/product/3717/jinbei_plafond_rail_systeem_compleet.html Don't know the Rail System from my own experience but I bought quite a bit of Jinbei gear (Studio-flash, mobile flash...

Would be interesting if you could provide a link to the section of Daves blogg in question. I can't confirm this observations at all. Just made a quick and dirty indoor test setup using the handheld flashhead of the FL500 (which comes with the set) without any modifiers. At a 2m Distance my...

Just another option: Certainly not as "sexy" as quadras but very affordable and reliable so far (use it for about half a year now) - works fine for me http://www.flickr.com/photos/laternamagica/sets/72157623679557432/ Bought it in the Netherlands for less than 300 Euros (The basic set plus...

For children, a 135cm wide Background should be fine (paper roll on expans together with two Stand equipped with hooks to hold the paper) On the versatility of a white background look here: http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=2858198&postcount=11 :thumbs:

I would start with a white rather than a black background. Its easier to let a white one appear black than vice versa. Below is an example of what you can do with a white IKEA rollo (aside from the limitation that it is only 180cm in length) as long as you avoid spill light on the background...

Since "Qantuum" to my knowledge is only a trade brand, the fact that a technically identical product is available under the "Mettle" lable would suggest to me that that Qantuums are build by Mettle and sold under the brand of the distributer.