Lighting BB game with 2 flashes

Very nice. I love the fact that you were able to use them and not get any hard shadows. I only see a faint one in the last picture. Great results.

Dave,
Just ran across this. Wonderful shots. And exactly what I'm looking at doing with two 430EXs.

Just out of curiosity... what cam and lens were you using? Assume you're using flash or 5500K for WB too, right? Or did you use any filters?

RangerRick wrote in post #4718920
Dave,
Just ran across this. Wonderful shots. And exactly what I'm looking at doing with two 430EXs.

Just out of curiosity... what cam and lens were you using? Assume you're using flash or 5500K for WB too, right? Or did you use any filters?

Rick, stay tuned to the sports forum tomorrow. I'll be posting my setup using two off camera flashes to shoot wrestling as well as a few images from the match. Should tie in well with this thread which was a huge motivation for me doing it.

namasste wrote in post #4719516
Rick, stay tuned to the sports forum tomorrow. I'll be posting my setup using two off camera flashes to shoot wrestling as well as a few images from the match. Should tie in well with this thread which was a huge motivation for me doing it.

Will look forward to it. I was looking at all my gear... and have everything except the wireless trigger/receivers. Can't decide wether to try two of the ebay $40 units or bite the bullet for the Skyports.

RangerRick wrote in post #4719578
Will look forward to it. I was looking at all my gear... and have everything except the wireless trigger/receivers. Can't decide wether to try two of the ebay $40 units or bite the bullet for the Skyports.

Rick, if it helps...I bought Ebay triggers and without doing a mod, couldn't get the sync speeds to work. I hear the mod works wonders and if I were shooting in studio or stills, I might be willing to deal with the slow sync and even the occassional misfire but when shooting sports on an assignment, I can't afford to blow it so I went with the Skyports. I can honestly say that the sync speed is as advertised, I had zero misfires, and was able to fire from anywhere I wanted without an issue on triggering. The results were good enough (imo, you be the judge tomorrow) that I think I'm going to hold off on the Alien Bees for a while as two little flashes really got it done better than I could have imagined. As a bonus, I wasn't tethered to outlets so mounting was less of an issue.

RangerRick wrote in post #4718920
Just out of curiosity... what cam and lens were you using? Assume you're using flash or 5500K for WB too, right? Or did you use any filters?

I used my MarkIIN. Some shots were with the 85 f/1.8 and some with my 70-200 f/2.8

I didn't use any gels on the flashes, but just used a daylight WB. I shot here before and gelled my flashes green and used a flouresent WB, but didn't really like the results.