Emergency! AB800 Arrived and I can't...

Rub it back and forth on a rough sidewalk until you can see the lamps inside...

Double Negative wrote in post #4807673
Rub it back and forth on a rough sidewalk until you can see the lamps inside...

Hey, we only have room in here for one comedian, and that's me!

Ok.. Ok.. Stop it all of you.... hahahahaha

Thank you all for you help.... I did not see anything telling me to squeeze the four finger black thing on the lamp...

Thank you for your quick response... I love you all.. You are all a life saver!

Thanks again....

LMAO! hahahahah... I will get you for this...:o

Double Negative wrote in post #4807673
Rub it back and forth on a rough sidewalk until you can see the lamps inside...

cskn0125 wrote in post #4804114
Somebody needs to read their manual!



squeeze the two black levers together, it will come right off.

ok.. What page of the manual tells me to squeeze anything.. hhahahaha...

thanks, but i was able to get it off without the manual... I almost tried to use a scissor to pop it and pry it off... Thank God I called on you guys who is laughing at me right now....

You'll be thankful those little prongs are so strong when you go to hang a softbox on that strobe. Don't feel bad, I had the same problem my first time, proof that it happens to the best of us.

dont worry about them. It happened to me to.

Paul Buff said they get calls regularly on how to remove the protective cover. Apparently, not too many people read the manuals.

Michael

jackies35 wrote in post #4807748
ok.. What page of the manual tells me to squeeze anything.. hhahahaha...

thanks, but i was able to get it off without the manual... I almost tried to use a scissor to pop it and pry it off... Thank God I called on you guys who is laughing at me right now....

Haha, well I supposed scissors would have worked as well.


Now that it's off, go take some pictures!

ok... Here are some pics using the NEW AB800 which had arrived yesterday in the mail...

Please C&C but no jokes... If anyone start laughing at my work, I will remove it immediately... Seriously ..hahahah you guys are something else!!!!

Here are the pictures I mentioned about.

Focal Length: 50mm
Exposure time: 0.125
I really don't like putting the camera in M mode because all my images comes out blurry... I need a tripod... I am a very nervous girl... These images must have been in P mode. I don't think i put the camera in Manual mode. Anyway, this is what everything look like before I decided to take a couple of shots with my neice.

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Hey Jackie.

I noticed you said you most likely shot in P. For strobes you HAVE TO shoot in M. This is because in P, your camera can't tell what's going to happen when the flash goes off, meaning it can't properly set the aperture or shutter speed itself, the user needs to do that. for strobes you will also almost always shoot in iso 100.

I really good book that you should get is Light: Science & Magic. It tells you almost everything you need to know and even talks about other lighting.

http://www.amazon.com …oks&qid=1201676​287&sr=8-1

I Hope this helps.

jackies35 wrote in post #4812681
I went from 800 iso down to 100 and I kept on changing the shutter speed. Now, I am shooting in manual mode on the camera, the flash is set to M and slave OFF. i don't know how to brighten up this picture...

Jackie, try to imagine this process in slow motion:

The shutter opens.
The flash turns on and off in about 1/1000 second.
The shutter closes.

Now hopefully you can visualize that changing the shutter speed won't affect the flash exposure. Keeping the shutter open longer than necessary simply invites more ambient light into the exposure, with the potential for motion blur.

But the camera doesn't know the Alienbee is there, and certainly can't predict how much light it will produce. This is why you need to tell the camera what to do, in M mode.

Keep the shutter speed close to the camera's X-sync speed. 1/160 should work.

If you're triggering the Alienbee with your 430EX, the flash unit cannot be in E-TTL mode. The 430EX must be in manual mode, too. Set it to a low power setting like 1/32 and aim the flash up at the ceiling.

You have enough power to use ISO 100 and f/5.6 in a residential/studio situation. Start with those settings, and adjust the power setting of the Alienbee to get the exposure right.

Curtis N wrote in post #4814211
Now hopefully you can visualize that changing the shutter speed won't affect the flash exposure. Keeping the shutter open longer than necessary simply invites more ambient light into the exposure, with the potential for motion blur.

You have enough power to use ISO 100 and f/5.6 in a residential/studio situation. Start with those settings, and adjust the power setting of the Alienbee to get the exposure right.

In case it's not obvious from this post, you can adjust your aperature as well as the bee. you just can't use your shutter speed.