Charles Robinson wrote:
On Apr 19, 2009, at 19:12, Bruce Walker wrote:
Don't knock using the PUF for wireless flash ... it works very well,
for a fraction of the price of Pocket Wizards -- essentially zero
dollars. :-)
I did some live music shots last week that way. I parked a 540FGZ
attached to a mini-tripod on top of a house speaker, stage left.
Flash set for 58mm and aimed along the row of mics. Then I wandered
around front of stage and got shots, all P-TTL using the PUF as
wireless controller. Many excellent shots with dramatic
side-lighting resulted. No musicians harmed by on-camera flash and
no red-eye. Was able to control the flash remotely power from the
K20D's Fn menu.
I would love to see the results from this if they're online somewhere.
I generally dislike flash at concerts, but..... depending on the
type/volume of a show, I might try something clever like that.
-Charles
It is actually a regular open stage event run by a musician friend, so I
get a lot of leeway to experiment. I dislike flash at concerts too, but
at this open stage the lighting is essentially flat. The stage floods
are unattended and simply set to full-on white, which isn't a lot of
light because they're kind of el-cheapo LED floods. I was getting tired
of the uniformly blah look I was getting and decided to mix things up a
bit by adding my own light. I plan to try gels at some point too.
I've only put up one shot so far but I am processing a number of others
to go up. Here's that one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bruce_m_walker/3449136144/
-bmw
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