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for TTL I would use a cold shoe and three triggers (YN622c) but that's more batteries (18 in total) than I can shake a stick at and more groupings to go wrong.
The bracket is hot shoe but a 'blind' trigger. because of this lack of TTL controls, I couldn't control it from the 622c-TX. it would be manual on each flash unit.
it's a 43" brolly and I didn't put it through a diffuser membrane so I got 3 catchlights, which is interesting
@jeff127 the bracket is a Selens SE-31 Hotshoe Mount Flash Bracket or similar, around £13 and seems okay, it does use a larger 3.5mm pin though, I expected the 2.5mm pin
I've only set this up once so far, for a portrait shoot that never happened, but I did test it of course.
The full photo straight from the camera on a 17-40L and then the final crop/edit/logo as I was quite pleased with the results.
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@Marcus Geezer, EXIF settings were ISO 100, F/9, 1/200s, 40mm
So that's not as high as you thought, but if you look at the wall coverage it's a lot larger then a single speedlite could reasonably cover. also 1/200s which is good enough to freeze motion. You could easily shoot at 1/100s.
when I first test fired the flash, it was very effective and I ended up with just a white wall with mottled (horrible) pattern visible through the highlights.
I filled from the subject's left with another YN-600RT,
The brolly flash was on group A, manual, and the fill on group B at about 1/4 power I think.
here's a 100% crop catchlight for you
The bracket is hot shoe but a 'blind' trigger. because of this lack of TTL controls, I couldn't control it from the 622c-TX. it would be manual on each flash unit.
it's a 43" brolly and I didn't put it through a diffuser membrane so I got 3 catchlights, which is interesting
@jeff127 the bracket is a Selens SE-31 Hotshoe Mount Flash Bracket or similar, around £13 and seems okay, it does use a larger 3.5mm pin though, I expected the 2.5mm pin
I've only set this up once so far, for a portrait shoot that never happened, but I did test it of course.
The full photo straight from the camera on a 17-40L and then the final crop/edit/logo as I was quite pleased with the results.
View attachment 36373 View attachment 36374
@Marcus Geezer, EXIF settings were ISO 100, F/9, 1/200s, 40mm
So that's not as high as you thought, but if you look at the wall coverage it's a lot larger then a single speedlite could reasonably cover. also 1/200s which is good enough to freeze motion. You could easily shoot at 1/100s.
when I first test fired the flash, it was very effective and I ended up with just a white wall with mottled (horrible) pattern visible through the highlights.
I filled from the subject's left with another YN-600RT,
The brolly flash was on group A, manual, and the fill on group B at about 1/4 power I think.
here's a 100% crop catchlight for you
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