Let's see your off camera flash shots!

Mofongo · Jul 16, 2006

OK, I've had my SB-600 for about 10 months now and love it for indoor shots with the Stofen Omnibounce diffuser and outside for fill flash as needed but have only played around with using it as a wireless flash with my D70 on commander mode a few times...

Let's see your SB-600/800 wireless off camera shots. I'd love to see what others are using it for...

Here's one I took this weekend while camping. I had the D70 on tripod with the internal flash up set to slow sync and used aperture priority for an 8 second shutter speed at f8 with the SB-600 on the ground to the left of my wife...

I thought it came out kind of cool...

Here's a couple I took the night I got the flash testing out the commander mode. Bottle (found scuba diving in the Niagara river) and shell was on top of a glass top coffee table with the SB-600 underneith pointing up...

Let's see yours!

Bob

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qrasco · Jul 16, 2006

The second one is really cool. You should try cloning out the flash in the first one. It is pretty noticeble.

nilepoc · Jul 16, 2006

Held the flash off to the side. These are shots of yard art in Austin Tx.

This is my friends BMW Isetta from the fifties, he drove it as part of his wedding. Flash is in the car.

All of the climbing shots were taken with the flash on a Monopod with the flash above the climber and off to the side.

Mike Lewis · Jul 16, 2006

Just messing around

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nilepoc · Jul 16, 2006

forgot this one.

MattinSTL · Jul 16, 2006

I wonder how many people end up buying a second flash?

I just got my sb-800 on friday and I'm already thinking I should have bought two sb-600's instead! I guess I can wait a while and get another sb-800... the CLS works so good in wireless mode that it's nuts. Since I just got the flash I don't have anything that great yet... but I already love this thing. It's amazing in wireless mode... the TTL is pretty much dead on every single time.

How cool would it be to have that shadow partially filled? Hmm... yeah... second flash coming eventually... that's for certain.

Mofongo · Jul 16, 2006

qrasco said:
qrasco wrote:
The second one is really cool. You should try cloning out the
flash in the first one. It is pretty noticeble.

Thanks for the comment. Yea, I thought about cloning out the flash, perhaps I will now that you mention it...

Bob

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Mofongo · Jul 16, 2006

nilepoc said:
nilepoc wrote:
Held the flash off to the side. These are shots of yard art in
Austin Tx.

Haha, the baby heads are pretty weird... ;> )

I'll be heading to Austin again next month for the second time. Had a great time last year. My mother in law lives down there...

nilepoc said:
This is my friends BMW Isetta from the fifties, he drove it as part
of his wedding. Flash is in the car.

Cool car and the shots turned out great. Can't even tell a flash was used as in no reflections etc...

Did you have a diffuser on the flash by any chance?

nilepoc said:
All of the climbing shots were taken with the flash on a Monopod
with the flash above the climber and off to the side.

Now these are cool! I like the idea of using a monopod to get the flash where you want it. Great idea...

Thanks for sharing,

Bob

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Mofongo · Jul 16, 2006

nilepoc said:
nilepoc wrote:
forgot this one.

http://www.pbase.com/nilepoc/image/61512219.jpg

Now that is unique...

Thanks for the laugh!

Bob

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Mofongo · Jul 16, 2006

MattinSTL said:
MattinSTL wrote:
I wonder how many people end up buying a second flash?

I know, one more would open up so many more possibilities...

MattinSTL said:
I just got my sb-800 on friday and I'm already thinking I should
have bought two sb-600's instead! I guess I can wait a while and
get another sb-800... the CLS works so good in wireless mode that
it's nuts. Since I just got the flash I don't have anything that
great yet... but I already love this thing. It's amazing in
wireless mode... the TTL is pretty much dead on every single time.

Agreed. Nikons flash stuff is like magic!

MattinSTL said:
How cool would it be to have that shadow partially filled? Hmm...
yeah... second flash coming eventually... that's for certain.

Haha, I was wondering the same thing if I had another flash on the other sider of her to eliminate the shadow...

Someday... ;> )

Bob

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Mofongo · Jul 16, 2006

Mike Lewis said:
Mike Lewis wrote:
Just messing around...

It sure is fun messing around with wireless flash, huh?

Bob
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'Photography is more about depth of feeling than depth of field'
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kezzer · Jul 16, 2006

I read this thread and thought I guess I'll give this a try. SB-800 placed on the bottom left.
D70 + 18-70

victor beato · Jul 17, 2006

my son resting after coming home from his volleyball practice last

kezzer said:
fall. sb800 on wireless mode about 1 foot from his side for
dimensional lighting. i placed the flash on the coffee table and
used a small lumiquest softbox to mute the flash and show texture.

i used a wide angle (20mm) lens at f8 for good dof at about one
foot away for artistic (distorted) angle and placed the flash on
the floor (wireless) from the side for dramatic lighting.

mdm901 · Jul 17, 2006

I quite like the one of the bottle, the colour of it is amazing.

phuddle · Jul 17, 2006

I use an off camera flash but its not a Nikon. Its basically an old olympus FL-40, which is a great flash, that I have either set to auto or manual and mounted on a two dollar slave trigger. Anyone else use this method?

Mofongo · Jul 17, 2006

phuddle said:
phuddle wrote:
I use an off camera flash but its not a Nikon. Its basically an old
olympus FL-40, which is a great flash, that I have either set to
auto or manual and mounted on a two dollar slave trigger. Anyone
else use this method?

Any examples photos of how it works...

I'm assuming it would not be TTL?

Bob

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Mofongo · Jul 17, 2006

kezzer said:
kezzer wrote:
I read this thread and thought I guess I'll give this a try. SB-800
placed on the bottom left.
D70 + 18-70

http://people.ku.edu/~bbaraban/NadiaJump.jpg

Hey, that's pretty cool! Wireless flash is sure fun to play with...

Bob

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'Photography is more about depth of feeling than depth of field'
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Mofongo · Jul 17, 2006

victor beato said:
victor beato wrote:
my son resting after coming home from his volleyball practice last

victor beato said:

fall.

Click to expand...

This one turned out real nice, I like it...

The little dog looks cool too...

Bob

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'Photography is more about depth of feeling than depth of field'
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reyeslp · Jul 17, 2006

A few months back.

Brad Morris · Jul 17, 2006

SB-600 into an Umbrella fired using CLS from a D70

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