Using a single strobe (NOT hotshoe flash)- creative examples - mark II

Mark1 wrote in post #14214367
What were you trying to bounce it off?

Outside like this it is a pointless modification to the light. Well... other than sending light off into space rather than to your subject.

An umbrella with a 580exII would have worked much better in that situation correct?

40 degree grid

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nothing at all fancy, just playing around with my son who turned 9 months old the other day.

bare 580 ex II to camera right, bounced with home-made bounce card.

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PhilF wrote in post #14189618
yep but mine was for an alienbee strobe.

thanks. your the best.

Very nice pictures of your son, PW.

single light with a dented old 7" reflector (begging to be replaced) -- from the RED editorial series

Fuzzmuffin wrote in post #14211661
Not sure if this is a people/muppet-only thread, but I was proud of this attempt (gelled 580EX II to camera left). Apologies in advance if I'm not in the right place. I guess it's kinda lame compared to the awesome stuff I see here, but I'm a large format shooter so these kinds of things are still a novelty for me.

Anyway, >100% crop here. Thnx, bye.

Pretty fantastic shot, if you ask me.

except for the fact that it's straight out of a tutorial and really overdone.

CrayonNinja wrote in post #14216634
except for the fact that it's straight out of a tutorial and really overdone.

Take your cornflakes and poor the piss out of them...

Lovely work as always zerimar and phil!

Pward, cute bubba!!

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Frames by Celly & Ches wrote in post #14217129
Lovely work as always zerimar and phil!

Pward, cute bubba!!

going solo Chester?

jthomps123 wrote in post #14216682
Take your cornflakes and poor the piss out of them...

/grin I think it's an excellent shot, for what it is. Most people honestly don't realize how difficult it can be to reliably get a drop like that after literally dozens of attempts.

mo5751 wrote in post #14214498
An umbrella with a 580exII would have worked much better in that situation correct?

Not necessarily better. Different.

The bare flash with or without the Sto-Fen is a small light source and will give you the hard light with the shadows like you see in your frame. Switching to an umbrella would have made for a much larger and, as a result, softer light.

CrayonNinja wrote in post #14216634
except for the fact that it's straight out of a tutorial and really overdone.

I passed that stage in photography too.... it's a good shot

PhilF wrote in post #14217865
I passed that stage in photography too.... it's a good shot

As did I, I still have 100 water droplet shots nearly identical in a folder on my external.