Saturday, May 30, 2009

My First Strobist (Off Camera Flash) Attempt

Mushna bought me the Canon 580 EX II speedlite for my camera which can trigger my 430 EX wirelessly. Today I went to Pictureline and bought an umbrella and light stand so we went up to Hobble Creek to give it a try. I'm pretty impressed with my first attempt at using the flash off-camera. Everything was dialed in manually, including my camera and the power of the flash.

Here is the full set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hypnoeyez99/sets/72157618945002473/

Hobble Creek Canyon

Hobble Creek Canyon

Hobble Creek Canyon

Hobble Creek Canyon

Hobble Creek Canyon


Here is a shot (taken by Mushna) of me:
Hobble Creek Canyon

Speaking of light, last weekend the weather was awful so I built my own lightbox roughly following the instructions here:

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html

Here is my version:

DIY Light Box

DIY Light Box

And here is my first (and only so far) shot taken inside the lightbox:

Wedding Rings

3 comments:

steve-o said...

Very nice photos. What lenses were you using for each of the photos?

I have a white box at work that I haven't actually tried using, but maybe I should. It's portable and about the size of a 17" laptop bag, and also came with red and black material for the sides of the box. Maybe I should get it out--looks like it could be fun.

Display Name said...

For the shots of Mushna, I was using the 70-200 f/2.8L IS USM.

The shots of the light box were taken with my 50 mm f/1.8.

The shot of the ring was taken with my 100 mm f/2.8 Macro.

The light box was fun to play with. I would definitely suggest picking up a macro lens. That's the only lens I tried that gave me enough magnification that I didn't have to crop my shot by like 90% (at least when shooting my rings).

Anonymous said...

That picture of Mushna blowing the dandelion puff thing is gorgeous. As is the one of just the dandelion. Good job!