On Jun 20, 2012, at 5:20 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: > Heh; clever! > > Something else to try is putting your LED source *inside* the softbox > as a miniature modelling light.
After taking all the photos except the funny looking cormorant, that thought occurred to me too. There's probably a market for a rectangular ring of LEDs that fit around the rim of a speedlight to use a modeling lights. > > I would love to see a shot of you wearing the headlamp and crouching > over those flowers with the softbox on a stick ... I'd call you sick and twisted, but since you're on the PDML, that's redundant. Fortunately, there was nobody else with a camera near by. > > I really like your silliness shot. Thanks. > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> I tried going for a run this evening. I got home at dusk and noticed some >> pretty flowers a little ways up the road. I wanted to get some photos of >> them. Easy to do with a flash, but hard to focus and frame when it was >> getting dark. At first I tried wearing a headlamp, which sort of worked, >> but then I realized that if I attached it to the soft box on the flash, not >> only would it illuminate the subject, but I'd get some idea where the flash >> was aiming: >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/7405944224/in/set-72157630202932998 >> >> A couple of the shots that I got: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/7405939628/ >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/7405941718/ >> >> And a bit of silliness: >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/7405942176/ >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

