Off camera flash examples [strobist heads]

King Eric

I found this interesting, videos of off camera flash lit photos with an explanation of how he took them and little sketches showing placements of the flashes snoots umbrellas etc.


http://www.sitbonzo.com/fergusb/


http://www.sitbonzo.com/sit/

PaulieC

Cool. Thanks Eric for posting

CONMIKE12

Good man Eric

5uspect

Cool videos! Thanks for posting.

Carrigman

Very good. But how does one get a conventional flashgun like an SB800 to fire into an umbrella? Lighting stands, AFAIK, are not designed to take such flashguns.

gerk86

lol at the edge holding the sb800. great stuff.

digitalage

Carrigman use a clamp in the link I have shown below and to fire it you can use a cactus v2 trigger with remote, cheap and cheerful.

http://www.fotoshopaalten.nl/product_info.php?cPath=64_84&products_id=463&osCsid=23abd1f781f58024881cfe117461f0dc

http://www.gadgetinfinity.com/product.php?productid=16741&cat=274&page=1

PaulieC

This contraption is what you want. Fits onto most stands and has a hotshoe and includes umbrella

PaulieC

an attempt at what he was trying to do with the gangster pic. Obviously I didn't have a gangster on hand to pose for me, so I used my ever unwilling daughter...


couple more on my vlickr

mloc

nice pic!

I just bought the flashhead/umbrella combo, and now I'm trying to work out what I'll mount it to. Will it mount to a tripod?

PaulieC

mloc wrote: »

nice pic!

I just bought the flashhead/umbrella combo, and now I'm trying to work out what I'll mount it to. Will it mount to a tripod?

thanks mloc. yes you should be able to mount on a tripod. you might need a small attachment though. ebay should be able to help you out there

mloc

ah good, thanks for that.

I built a homemade honeycomb grid from some drinking straws and cardboard for my SB-800, this looks very dark on flickr for some reason but gives you an idea what it does: