FTW :)

Fellow black 3 door owner :D

Managed to get out to shoot my dirty daily late this afternoon. The 3rd one is my fave of the bunch


Golf 2 by rob.evans22, on Flickr


Golf 3 by rob.evans22, on Flickr


Golf 1 by rob.evans22, on Flickr

Getting there :)


50p 1 by rob.evans22, on Flickr


50p 2 by rob.evans22, on Flickr


50p 3 by rob.evans22, on Flickr

The flashguns? They are two different types.
The YN-560-II's are completely manual and the YN-565EN is manual and ETTL compliant (ETTL is Canon's jigery pokery camera to flash communication system)

Why are all 3 different Rob?

I was greeted by this little package when I got back to North Wales this afternoon :D





The power of these things blow my old Jessops flash gun out of the water! I accidentally fired one of them off at full power and blinded my dad temporarily :lol:

I had a little play with them before. The power is adjustable right down to 1/128. Even at 1/1 power the recycle time is amazing.

Setup (taken on phone):


And the end result (straight out the camera):

Well it started well....Then my flashgun finally died :( Thats the end of that until I get some new ones.

This week I have invested in some filters and some materials to make some DIY filter holders and some DIY snoots. I bought 600+ sample filters :0, some foam sheet, velcro and a stapler.

600+ Filters


Modifying materials at the ready

Well, I had a bit of a mess around this evening. I used this badboy as my subject :cool:



Final result after throwing in some flash filters



Background aint up to much but that wasnt really the point in the exercise. Learning to control the light and where it went was the main idea. This was acomplished with some card wrapped around the speedlite to make a snoot then another speedlite with a blue filter for the background

Anyone read this blog? I stumbled across it this week and it has an awesome course to help you develop your photography when using flash.

I read through the first few pages last night and I'm going to start working through the basic assignments this weekend. They look pretty easy to start (just to get you to understand the very basics) but some of the pictures people were producing by the end of the first main assignment look stunning :cool:

Anyone else fancy giving it a go? I thought we could get a few CS photographers involved and share the progression via this thread. Its aimed at both N00bs and seasoned pros so hopefully everyone can learn/share something.

http://strobist.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/lighting-102-introduction.html


[Edited on 04-01-2013 by Rob E]