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barcamp2008notes

At BarCamp there was a session on flash photography. I'm pretty bad at dealing with flashes so I attended.

Brain Dump of Notes

  • Take 10 minute exposure with lens cap on as a noise shot
  • Use 'difference' in photoshop
  • Peanut slave (pro photo)
  • Max sync speed
  • Ebay trigger
  • Pocket trigger
  • Snoots (mat board)
  • Ringlite
    • Masonite
    • White xmas lights
    • Furnace tape (reflective, not duct tape)
    • Not good with a portrait lens, 2850K
  • Tune monitor
    • Whitest sheet of paper
    • Strobe paper
    • Overexposed blinkies
  • City lights
    • f8, 20-30s, 100ISO
    • 20 min after sunset
  • Lightdome Q3
  • White wall f16 for sensor dust checking
  • Vivitar 285HV (high voltage) with peanut trigger
    • New released version trigger voltage adjusted from 200V to 6V for modern DSLR's
barcamp2008notes.txt · Last modified: 2014/06/24 05:40 (external edit)