The *Official Photography Thread*

I'm sure I will get radios someday. Especially if I really enjoy off camera lighting, which I suspect will be the case. But for now, since I'm just learning, I want cables. They are cheap by comparison and can back up any radio failure in the future. For now I just want to learn the basics and not get carried away buy strobist gear and then find out its not my thing ha umbrella was a cheap $20 one, etc.

I'll either wait on the OCF cable because I like his design or maybe pick up this guy if that takes too long. I don't really want to be waiting on him but I know I can pop the flashes in slave mode or something alternative while I wait too.

How's this look? For hotshoe to LumoPro lp180 which already has the jack.
http://flashzebra.com/products/0142/index.shtml

 

I have the OCF straight cord with two hot shoes. The mini plug isn't something I can use. Syl Arena is all into the plug as is David Hobby.

BTW, if you get the right cable, you can also use your radios to fire the camera making a remote camera set up easy peasy

 

I've read that haha I had all my stuff sent to Lincoln and I'm visiting the family in South Dakota so I can't start actually DOING anything until I get back. Even then school and work have been killing me lately. No time to shoot at all. I'm feeling very static as a photographer and don't like it. I like to be making some progress or at least practicing something I've learned. Lately I've been just taking snapshots between class and work. I guess I did start a new personal project ha but we'll see how long that takes to get rolling.

 

I think I'm going with radio popper. I've looked at the pocket wizards for a while now and just don't see the price worth it. $99 for a basic trigger is ridiculous. Plus having two of them to start is even worse. I like how radio popper gives you the choice to even convert the nikon cls over to radio and still be able to control flash output from the camera. I just don't see the value in pocket wizards anymore and you can only ride your name for so long before you have to actually develop something better than the other guy.

For right now the cls system works for my needs.

 

Yeah, been shooting with the D3000 for a couple years now. Feel like I am growing out of it. I have a few lenses, but the 50mm 1.8 should be nice in the boat shooting pictures of fish. (80% of what I do)


Pretty stoked! It's the AF 50mm as well.

That's awesome, let me know how you like it.

I am picking mine up used. Has around 14k pictures taken on it.

 

Pocket Wizard used to be the only game in town. They are not. And, they recently laid off a bunch of people-which should tell you something about their market share.

There are issues with some of the cheapy eBay triggers. I would do a bit of research first but RP's seem to be one of the 'new' standards. Excellent product judging by the few things I've read. I would definitely consider the Radio Popper if I needed more triggers.

One of the few reasons for owning PWs anymore is if you are working with arena lighting. Most of us aren't and won't be-even then, you'd just need the xmit part. Some light meters have built-in PW triggers so if that's valuable to you, then PWs.

 

i only use my pw for hyper sync. and my other set of pw are the plus II, so they are pretty standard. nothing special about them. but my tt-5's are fun, wireless ttl, hyper sync, remote trigger, etc.

but for cheaper/same price anything else will do.

 

ok so...im thinking that on all my images that i post, i will be putting my watermark multiple times on the image so that it cannot be cloned off therefore it cant be "stolen"

think this is worth it to save me money from people just taking my images and cropping off the watermark then printing them?

i know its a good idea but i just hate ruining a great image with a stupid watermark over it.

thoughts?

 

If people are printing them offline they are only going to be 72dpi right? And look crappy in print?

 

possibly 100 dpi.

 

Nice Ben! I've been enjoying a strapless body too Too many times the damn strap just pisses me off, just gotta keep a good meathook grab on it at all times...

 

I want to take the damn strap off but I am to lazy.

 

how do you make it through the day if you're too lazy to take the strap off your camera

 

Nice shot Ben! That the 100-400?

 

You got a Black Rapid strap for it?

If not look into one. Makes carrying the bigger lenses a lot nicer.

 

How much did it end up costing Ben?

 

Hmm, that's not to bad if you have a trip or a lot of free time.

 

Hanging with the little bro haha skills.


DSCF0401.jpg by AdelphosChaz, on Flickr

 

Didn't even notice the trees. Now that you bring it up, I'm going to have to go back into LR and rotate it to straighten them up and re-export it.
Leveling was a problem... I didn't think to pop the bubble level onto the shoe, I couldn't use the viewfinder, and I could barely see the Liveview display with the sun behind me, so I was gauging the body against the ground... shoved one leg of the tripod into the sand and slipped a rock under another. Looks like I went a bit too far.

I agree on the shadows, and if I were to shoot the same spot again, I'd have gone a bit tighter than 18mm, which kinda blew out the impact of the camera being so low... 35mm probably would have done the trick, and eliminated much of the foreground clutter.