Lighting tutorials

[David H. Hartman]

David Hobby and Joe McNally did a lighting road show together. [Flash Bus] I'm wondering if there are any YouTube videos of it. David Hobby favors full manual flash exposure while Joe McNally favors Nikon's CLS/AWL. They joke about this from time to time

Dave

CLS = Creative Lighting System, AWL = Advanced Wireless Lighting: Marketing lingo.

[Björn Carlén]

Thanks, Pedro!

[Almass]

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[Björn Carlén]

What's that dot or full stop all about, Almass? Are you trying to shut us up?

[John G]

Hi Bjorn
            I,ve just began a similar journey myself with a pair of SB 800,s
I hope to support my winter wildlife photography using these.
Recently I used one for a Macro outing. On this occasion I only had the skills to use the on of button and set a command channel.
So I hope we learn together and can offer encouragement.

[Björn Carlén]

Sounds good, John. Let's learn together!

[David H. Hartman]

Interviews with Joe and David on the Advancing Your Photography...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K36unQrQ4yI&list=PLCWRagxcOTNSSS5vuyUzgDeuOwqvLkCSG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGhp_-_nh-M&list=PLCWRagxcOTNSSS5vuyUzgDeuOwqvLkCSG&index=2

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Björn,

You didn't ask about equipment but if you need strobes I'll recommend a pair of these...

http://mpex.com/lumopro-lp180r-off-camera-flash.html

...a set of these...

https://www.amazon.com/Phottix-Stratos-Multi-Transmitter-Receiver/dp/B0056MPWZU

Did I mention that I hate PC cables?

So these will give you two speedlights and a trigger for the camera: no cables needed.

Dave

I don't own the LP180R(s) with their built in Strato II receivers but rather SB-800, SB-700 and SB-24. I do own the Phottix Strato II(s). The LP180R(s) offer both off-camera Canon and Nikon TTL compatibility as I recall. LP180(s) have been recommended a number of times by David Hobby. Joe McNally uses Nikon speedlights.

[Björn Carlén]

Thanks, David! I'll be looking into it.

[David H. Hartman]

After this I had one more link I'd like to pass on.

Here is a link to Thorsten Ott's free tutorials...

http://www.thorstenottphotography.com/tutorials

Dave

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I've been looking for an online tutorial by Zack Arias and got thrown off as the photos for it were lost with a transfer to a different server. Pretty much the same information should be available at You Tube. Here are a couple of links...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2415wV8mE4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZwc-QBkOfg

Dave

[David H. Hartman]

OK, here is one more....

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2016/07/lighting-102-introduction.html

Dave

[Björn Carlén]

Thanks, Dave! I've begun watching the videos.

[Björn Carlén]

The problem is, for a start, to get my two SB-800s to be radio triggered from my Oly E-M5 II. It would be nice to be able to control power output on camera as well, for each of the speedlights. Is Pocket wizard the solution, or are there cheaper alternatives that work well? I'm finding the whole thing to be very confusing, to say the least.

[charlie]

Pocket Wizards are a solution to radio triggering. MiniTT1/FlexTT5 if you want CLS/i-TTL, or other options if you can live with out auto features. I suspect there are cheaper alternatives as well.


In the meantime you can put the SB-800's in SU-4 mode and fire them using the optical trigger, so long as you have a flash for the E-M5 to do the triggering. A viable option while you sort out your radio triggers. 

 

[David H. Hartman]

Björn,

There's a guy named Jerry at the Flickr group, Strobist.com that knows the Pocket Wizard TTL system very well. If you are up to putting down some serious cash it's probably the best system for wedding photography. I'd think it would be good for any portraiture. Here is a link to the Flickr group...

https://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/

If you want manual control of your flash power from the camera it's usually done using the TLL features of your speedlight even though the camera is not controlling the exposure. I'm not sure what works with what getting away from Nikon. I know the Phottix Odin system will do this with Nikon, Canon and Sony. I'm not sure about others.

There is a link up now.

Best,

Dave

[Björn Carlén]

In the meantime you can put the SB-800's in SU-4 mode and fire them using the optical trigger, so long as you have a flash for the E-M5 to do the triggering. A viable option while you sort out your radio triggers.

I tried the SU-4 mode, but it's only one out of 30 or more times that the SB-800 is properly synced with the shutter. It fires, though. Someone said pre-flashes from the optical trigger may be the cause. I don't know if there 's a way to turn off those pre-flashes. And the camera is an E-M5 mark 2, by the way.
With my D600 it works like a breeze.