Recent content by mortm

Hello Chris The kit has been mentioned a couple of times: http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=82801 http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=85162 I'm a fan, plenty to play with for your money. Mel

Sekonic L-308S, does all you will need and under £100

Question: Where is MLU on the 700?

My Sigma APO 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG HSM ended up being non HSM and not even DG :'( And worse focus was terrible on the 350. Luckily the ebay seller was a good guy and has refund the money for this and the 2x EX convertor. So to chear myself up I had the 2 week old 350 exchanged for a 700. But back...

I would say you may want to reduce the 45 degrees and bring the lights closer to the camera angle to reduce shadow spread. Are the ceiling/walls white? You may want to look at bouncing the light. Best thing would be if you could have a trial run at location.

Hi MarkF, On ebay you can expect about £200 for an A100 with kit 18-70mm lens.

It takes a bit of time and I did end up getting a light meter. But I would say I'm glad I didn't straight away as I learnt a lot via trial and error and I am now learning more with the light meter. Once you get the distance, power to aperture ratio sorted as a basic guide things get easier. I...

If you shoot in RAW then you can change the WB in ACR when you open it in photoshop.

Looking good cowaski, It might be me or maybe because of the background but it looks a bit cool (As in temp not Fonzie), you may need to set your white balance to warm it up a bit. But this is the best bit, having a play. :thumbs:

You may want change your aperture from f/4.5 when the lights are that close ;)

Bowens in a box same price, where? The Esprit Gemini 200 is over twice the price for a two head kit without bag, softbox, barndoors and all the other toys.

Grey... this years black. With grey you can overexpose it to white or underexpose it to black if you have enough distance. Glad you like the kit and I love the cow.

Sorry, that can't be right. Are you sure it isn't the flash triggering the lights not the sync cable? The light from the flash will trigger the lights even without the sync cable. Is there a setting on your camera to turn of flash or some such. Where are all the D200 users when you need them...

Hello Cowasaki You shouldn't need the camera flash, just the sync cable. I don't know about Nikons but with my alpha I plug the sync cable into the pc socket (via adapter as my camera doesn't have one) and the other end to one of the strobes, set the camera to manual, shutter speed to the...

Yes totally agree Simon, I imagine most landscape will be done with the 16-80 but you never know. I must admit.... and this is hard for a lady..... I am actually getting fed up with spending. I now need to get another camera day bag as the camera + 2 lenses and 2x converter don't fit in my...