Ale-- Practicing my Strobist

Her name is said "Allie," but spelt like the beer. I picked up the Zack Arias One Light DVD during the Black Friday special and have watching it and doing my homework. This was my first legit strobist shoot and I am pleased with the results.

All of these shots are with my 16-35 as I was having ST-e2 triggering issues while shooting with the 70-200 at greater distances. I need some radio triggers!

I used a 430EX II in manual mode, shot through a Westcott 43" at about 45º camera left.

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Beautiful job...I'm practicing my strobist skills these days, too. That low sun can be real tough but, so gorgeous when you can reign her in! And you seem to have handled that task very nicely!

amazingly done, great job

Fantastic balance! Great job

some beautiful light going on here. Great job.

very nice, and perfect timing on the time of day to shoot!

- Derrick

Exif isn't showing, so I'm not sure what your settings were. But I think you could increase the power of the 430 and adjust your shutter speed to bring back the sky.

I really like the third shot. The building on the left really helps the composition.

DocMike wrote in post #11831835
Beautiful job...I'm practicing my strobist skills these days, too. That low sun can be real tough but, so gorgeous when you can reign her in! And you seem to have handled that task very nicely!

Thank you. Now if I can get my strobe to trigger at a distance in the direct sun

aemravan wrote in post #11831854
amazingly done, great job

Thank you.

ConverseMan wrote in post #11832140
Fantastic balance! Great job

Thanks!

Slaterza wrote in post #11833110
some beautiful light going on here. Great job.

Thank you.

Derrick_SA wrote in post #11833281
very nice, and perfect timing on the time of day to shoot!

- Derrick

Thanks Derrick. The sun was sitting just right to use as the back/rim light.

ShotByTom wrote in post #11833535
Exif isn't showing, so I'm not sure what your settings were. But I think you could increase the power of the 430 and adjust your shutter speed to bring back the sky.

Thats interesting because the EXIF is intact and its also is on the [clickable] flickr images. These were around f/4, 1/250 sec, ISO 100. I think the 430 was set to 1/4 power.

Gundogs wrote in post #11834095
I really like the third shot. The building on the left really helps the composition.

Thanks.

Nice layout, standard machine angle

laanh wrote in post #11839396
Nice layout, standard machine angle

I don't know what that means but thank you