Post Your Favorite "Off Camera Hot Shoe Flash" Shots

We spent last week camping at the beach with some friends. Here's a few of my daughter and her friend doing what they called their artistic poses.

I need to spend a little more time with this OFC stuff. It really is a lot of fun.

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Were you using a MF lens?
They look very soft.

ragin bull. Phenomenal e-session! Please review the 7d vs 5d2. Phamster, how the hell do you get so many senior sessions???

@ enginyr.

i guess in my town i have 5-9 photographers, and 5 high schools.. so really a good ratio..

just lucky, i have facebook helping me.. and it seems the students don't want studio shots.. they want location shoots.. thus i am only locations..

just plain lucky..

here is one i haven't posted.. 430 with exII and PW's..

@ Pham- Great shot! What time of day do you usually shoot for when doing your seniors? Since I'm having to use IR for now, do you think I will have a prob shooting in mid day?
Shots on previous page were done around 6:30P. With the exception of refresh times the IR was flawless.

hey phamster, i know the post is 3 page old but why do you shot at iso 640 and not just bump up your flash power? probalby a strait forward answer but my beginner brain just cant figure out why

cheers

phamster wrote in post #8820955
........this shoot i used just a 430 EX with the PW's.. and my new umbrella !! (3rd one this year)

manual mode.

1/125, iso 640, f 3.5, and with umbrella @ 1/8 th power 430 EX II about 5-8 feet away

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Kyle is raaddd wrote in post #8825376
Were you using a MF lens?
They look very soft.

No MF. My resizing must have messed them up because the originals are pretty sharp. I'll see if I can redo them.

taccca wrote in post #8826447
hey phamster, i know the post is 3 page old but why do you shot at iso 640 and not just bump up your flash power? probalby a strait forward answer but my beginner brain just cant figure out why

cheers

It is a great question.

Here is why.

Conditions during the shoot was stormy weather.. really dark outside..

The output of the photo doesn’t really show how the actual condition was.

It just rained all day long.. and was cold.. you know one of those days you just want to stay home and drink coffee and watch football..

So what I do is find a shutter speed that I can hand hold first.. ( I hand hold everything, no tri pods. Really slows me down – not saying it is good technique, or bad, just not my way.) I know Tony uses tri pods all the time.

So the good shutter speeds with ISO that made the day brighter and was hand hold able was what I came up with.. thus the ISO had to be 640.. if ISO was lower, and the flash stronger, the back ground would not balanced, infact I started out at ISO 100, and tried the hand holding 1/60 and the Back Ground was still too dark… what did work with that ISO 100 was SS 1/30, but that would be not good for hand holding.. I stop @ 1/80 but that is if I am really wanting only one shot, but for a whole shoot.. 1/80 is not an option.

Hope that answers the ISO 640 on a dreary day, but the end results is that it made the day look perfect and bright and happy..

Working your manual settings correctly will get you 95% exposures you will ever need and in most cases very capable in any condition.

I would like to encourage everybody to start paying attention to conditions you just worked in and learning what exposure data worked for your photos.. and rely on that the next time you are in it.. AV and TV modes are EVIL !! lol..

phamster

newest fav of my son

One from the other night

430 off cam, and 580ex on cam as trigger

evolved wrote in post #8827109
newest fav of my son

Brilliant!

evolved wrote in post #8827109
newest fav of my son

splendid!

evolved wrote in post #8827109
newest fav of my son

Love this. . .wonderfully done.

heymirth wrote in post #8827385
One from the other night

430 off cam, and 580ex on cam as trigger

Nice shot as well . . .watch the highlights in the clothing.

coalcliff wrote in post #8828352
Three flashes used here,

430 ex on left, 540 ez camera right as fill and 580ex11 model right,

Very clean shot. . .love the composition. I'd flip the pic, but thats jus a picky matter with lines.