My beanpole in action

is that a bit of kitchen paper over the flash head?!
just had a look at your other pictures,contemplating the sigma 105 myself, you've got some incredible pictures there. the flash arrangement is quite interesting too, along with beanpole! simple but effective. well done

Hi
Not sure I understand the comment- I've actually stopped using the remote shutter release, as the pole grip stops me rotating the camera when I press the shutter, besides which I kept on triggering the remote with the pole accidently
Brian V.

Thanks shiato storm

Yes there is a home-made diffuser made out of a plastic milk bottle, but I put on a layer of kitchen towel over the outside of that for extra diffusion. The wide angle diffuser built into the Sigma flash is also deployed.
Brian V.

Happy to see your technique Brian.
You really like this bean pole
Rgds
Jose

LordV wrote:
Hi
Not sure I understand the comment- I've actually stopped using the remote shutter release, as the pole grip stops me rotating the camera when I press the shutter, besides which I kept on triggering the remote with the pole accidently
Brian V.

Yes you get the main point. What I was asking about is how you connected this remote trigger to the camera shutter release system ?

Regards

Hi Ahmad,
The shutter release I was using was just a modded mobile telephone earpiece thing with 2 switches so it was wired and just went into the tiny jack socket on the side of the camera.
Brian V.