The Bees came in/ Man am I green

The man in brown came by today with a truck load of boxes. I couldn't wait to get those boxes open. I have to say the folks at AB don't waist any time getting stuff sent out. Once my card was processed it took 2 days to get my Busy Bee starter kit. Overall it was petty easy to set up. Everything worked liked it was suppose to once I unplugged the remotes from the lights to let the slaves work like they were suppose to.

Keep in mind that last week the only thing I knew about strobes was that they made a neat popping sound when they flashed when you look at these. I had to do some guessing on the setting because my light meter hasn't came in yet (not that I would really know how to use it yet anyway). I played around for about an hour (my models where getting tired) with several different variations of light settings. Here's some of the better ones.

These are straight out of the camera with just a jpeg conversion, resizing, and one was cropped.

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Have fun learning and watch the hot spots.

congrats on the purchase. don't forget to set your white balance, it looks off in all of those pics. also, try moving your subjects away from the background.

have fun playing!

JakPot wrote in post #5895745
congrats on the purchase. don't forget to set your white balance, it looks off in all of those pics. also, try moving your subjects away from the background.

have fun playing!

Will do, thanks. I was just so happy to get the flashes to pop when I hit the shutter I forgot all about WB.

Since everyone left I had to be my own model. You might want to right click and save, because this may be one of the few pictures of me anyone will ever see.

I went for more of a dramatic lighting.

Congrats on your purchase. Looks like you're of to a good start!
Good luck!