Mini Workshop - On and Off Camera Flash

8th Meeting - Flash Workshop

News:

Abe, via Katherine, shared with us a nifty thing called the Gigapan process. It's a robotic camera mount that allows you to record gigpixel images. Check it out!

Barry talked a bit about the new Canon tilt shift lenses that came out recently. I found a video demo on it here. Very cool. And very expensive.

And some of the online stores I recommend are Vistek, Henry's, Camera Canada. Saneal and The Camera Store seems to have some of the best prices, but I haven't ever bought from them before myself.

Justin let us know that a local store Photo Expert has some really great prices.
Flash Workshop:

We went over the basics of flash photography and talked about some resources that are useful like studiolighting.net and Mark Wallace's video tutorials from Snap Factory (available also at studiolighting.net).

Then we spent an hour doing some experimenting and shooting with an external flash on the camera. Most members had not done a lot of flash photography before so we enjoyed the chance to try it out, tweak here and there and learn how the flash responds and what kind of results we can get with it.

I had two flashes with me (SB-800 and SB-600) and we quickly got a two flash off-camera setup going to try some shots in an otherwise dark space. We wish we had more time to experiment more but the workshop was really just to get us familiar with using the flash and seeing the results.

Speaking of which, here are a few shots I took that night.

View the set on our flickr stream if the photo browser below looks a little strange.



There is no meeting scheduled for next week. I'll keep you posted on the next mtg date by email.