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I have yet to explore remote triggering via CLS. I'll have to look into that. I wonder how it would do in wedding receptions in low light...I need to mess around with it. I've got 3 SB-900's and the D700 so...

I like my PWs because they are reliable and they work everytime.

My assistants main job is holding lights and managing equipment.

lol. I think I need to do that. my pregnant wife was holding the other flash (430ex) while the SB900 was on the stand with an umbrella. it was a nice beach sunset shot. I thought I had the stand deep enough on the sand. last time I heard electronics and water doesn't mix. umbrella was bent but it's ok. $20 than a $450 unit.

monk3y wrote in post #10735224
hahahaha and its pretty easy to move them, they are Voice Activated. say move to the right and your flash bracket (person) moves to the right. hahaha a little bit more expensive but a lot more versatile that flash bracket/stand.

hahaha

Yeah, I wish I can just snap my fingers and voice activate my wife to move stuff around for me.

I think what I love about the commander mode is the ease and lack of extra equipment to set up.

Once we were doing a portrait shoot and I was using the fongsphere...wasn't getting the light I wanted so I took the sb600 off my 2nd camera handed it to the mother of the senior, asked my husband to put his sb600 in slave mode, and it was a very quick set of shots with much more dramatic lighting than I was previously getting. It took about 1min to set up as well. I like fast transitions when I'm working.

hey Permie. when you do portraits outside, do you shoot with the flash nakkid? I got used to umbrellas. I think my mentality got stuck when I always hear bare flash = too strong. I need to update my strategy as when windy days, I can still do outside.

nicksan wrote in post #10735266
Yeah, I wish I can just snap my fingers and voice activate my wife to move stuff around for me.

when I try to do that at home I seem to always end up sleeping on the coach lol.

darksike wrote in post #10735303
when I try to do that at home I seem to always end up sleeping on the coach lol.

You too? I'm sleeping on one right now.

darksike wrote in post #10735292
hey Permie. when you do portraits outside, do you shoot with the flash nakkid? I got used to umbrellas. I think my mentality got stuck when I always hear bare flash = too strong. I need to update my strategy as when windy days, I can still do outside.

sometimes I bounce it (off of whatever I can find)...lots of times I use the fongsphere (really, though this gets a bad rap, I like it for close up portraits, inside and out) if I'm using flash at all...sometimes bald & direct (only in very bright light and it's probably dialed down)...again, if it's not windy I'll use an umbrella but I got tired of wasting time chasing them.

nicksan wrote in post #10735266
Yeah, I wish I can just snap my fingers and voice activate my wife to move stuff around for me.

nicksan wrote in post #10735328
You too? I'm sleeping on one right now.

wow!! I am not too keen on marriage to begin with, but I keep reading something like this here on POTN, and I don't think I will ever get married. hahaha

this is outside, only using the fongsphere...I just love the soft even light with no hotspots. I realize this isn't dramatic lighting. I'm just saying that it's my first go to...

Permagrin wrote in post #10735338
sometimes I bounce it (off of whatever I can find)...lots of times I use the fongsphere (really, though this gets a bad rap, I like it for close up portraits, inside and out) if I'm using flash at all...sometimes bald & direct (only in very bright light and it's probably dialed down)...again, if it's not windy I'll use an umbrella but I got tired of wasting time chasing them.

hahaha you're too funny Ms. Permie...

and while this was with the ds2, I had the fongsphere on the 580 and used the sun for the side light. It was just soft and even (compression is killing this shot...gah. I need to reupload it)

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