I shot a work event with a single off-camera speedlite and it went better than expected.

I had a really neat sort of revelation experience last night while photographing an event for my work. I had to get photos of each contestant as they attempted to open the "treasure chest" with their key. The lighting was god awful in this room. Orange-y halogen bulbs mixed with white halogens in the seating area and I only have my one flash. In previous years I'd shot this event without flash and some ridiculously wide apertures. Those photos turned out okay, but a bit noisy.

I set my flash up to fire into an off-white wall/ceiling with a full-CTO to help balance color temperature and set my camera at 1/125 f3.5 iso800 to try and balance some of the ambient exposure in. Without moving the flash at all, I was able to get these three different and unique lighting perspectives on the event and I ended up shooting the whole thing with my 35 f2 IS.

Please bare in mind, these are SOOC jpegs (converted from RAWs). Now I'm hooked on OCF...time to pick up another speedlite.

chexjc wrote in post #17600330
...time to pick up another speedlite.

well ,,, yeah! but why stop at just a speedlight?

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