Basil ! <-- Warning Off Camera Strobe Content -->

Hi All,

Following Paul's TYME I mentioned I'd have a go, well here it is.




I wasn't actually working on the compostition to much, more wanted to illustrate the effect of off camera light, strobe power, aperture and shutter speed balance.

Single strobe, off camera left, no soft box or other modifier. Would be better with a soft box and a second strobe off camera right to soften and balance the shadows a bit.


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This is a typical Shutter / Aperture matrix, however now LIGHT is thrown into the mix with an off camera strobe.

Appeture in Rows f2.8 top to f45 bottom.
Shutter speed in Coloumns 5 sec left to 1/50th right.


Then flash power (manual, not eTTL) on the diagonal.


You will note that the range of correctly exposed images greatly increases.
- Shutter speed controls the amount of ambient light.
- Aperture controls the amount of flash light (at same given power).
- Flash power and shutter speed can be balanced to control front / back light.


I'm going to try and refine this further to show and explain the effects better, maybe use eTTL. I keep posting the results.

As always any comments, questions, abuse always welcome.

Cheers,
Richard B.

Animals - Richards efforts II

Hi All,



While the whales were submitted this month they weren't quite shot this month so here is one taken this month.

Clowning around in Musandam

EXIF :-

Canon 350D

Sigma 17-70mm Macro at 70mm

f5.6 (full open for this lense at that length)

1/200 (Max sync speed as lot of water movement)

2xDS125 strobes in eTTL

Not much PP, almost none by my standards ;-)

and in Honor of Steven's aspect ratio's I've not gone 4x6 but I do feel dirty.

Coment, Critque and abuse welcome.

Cheers,

Richard B.