My contribution
Still new to the scene of Flash.
Sorry if noob pic ><

I'm still looking for a Rosco Swatchbook in Malaysia.
Its prohibitively expensive to send one here even though the sample itself is pretty cheap.

^thought of getting a pack of cheap tesco coloured soft folders and cut up into strips to use as gels. Too lazy to go to tesco. Haha

Using those plastics may cause the picture to have a colour cast though.

boyzone, most ring flash are tend for macro, if for portraiture, it depends, if u have bad iso body with F5.6 lens, u have to get pretty close for the ringflash to be effective. but if u have a great iso1600+F2.8 lens, i guess u can shoot as far as 3 meter away

Bro, thx for the info.

Btw, plan to get ring flash as mainly for macro.
However, heard that can support portrait as well ...

I would recommend a softbox for a better lighting directing, besides it's more solid and would last longer than the umbrella setup.

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Added on September 5, 2010, 3:34 pm

This post has been edited by niwooe: Sep 5 2010, 03:34 PM

Bounced from the ceiling.
Strobe was somewhere in the top right.

got PP? the vigneting looks artificial...

but still, a good work

F58 from above

flash umbrella from above(her left) and behind snot

This post has been edited by ieR: Sep 15 2010, 02:20 AM

Haha, thanks. Yep, added vignetting and desaturated to background to bring more focus to the box.

I like the highlight on her hair.
Is that lens flare on the bottom left of the picture?

yea, rainbow, somehow got into the picture. first time see this type of flare too

My take on my lens which I put up for sell








Setup apply to all shoot. Using SB900 on vertical position, shoot straight to object, bare, manual.

Manual zoom also applied to SB900 to narrow down the light focus.

atria83: nice product shots! maybe you could clean up the background a lil? hehe





This post has been edited by niwooe: Sep 18 2010, 10:24 PM

wanna ask.
can I trigger a 430EX II with 550D built-in flash? Coz I only have 1 flash only
I looked through the manual and they only mention about using an external flash to trigger the slave flash only.

magiclover, sorry dont think it can be done, so far,... only 7D can trigger 580exII with pop up.

but i heard the 1D series can trigger other 580 flashes with an 580 attached as commander mode. not sure with 5D

hold the 'zoom' button for 3-5 sec and u will see the 'Wireless flash menu' try figure it out, i still figuring how to trigger other 580 with a 580 mount on 450D... lol

nope, you need at least a 7D or the upcoming 60D to trigger that flash using camera body's built-in flash.
or
use one of the higher-end flash that can act as a master (e.g. 580 EX)
or
use the ST-E2 flash trigger
or
use a cheap radio trigger (e.g. yongnuo or octopus or whatchamacallit)
or
use super expensive radio trigger (e.g. pocket wizard)

chucky, 580ex2 can act as master on 3digitD body?

the flash itself has master mode so it doesnt matter what body u use.

even the 550EX has it.