[HUG ] Tote Dat Barge

Dear Friends,     

 

 And Lift Dat Bale, And get a little drunk and you can't focus, even with an
acute matte screen. Which is why I abstain at weddings - a professional
necessity but a real pain after 9:00 PM. Being the only sober person in a
room full of drunks is no fun.

 

                But I digress, I have done another wedding and tried a new
tack. I took a leaf from some of the wedding manuals and set up a subsidiary
light to banish some of the darkness from the reception hall behind the main
subjects. This is old hat to other workers in the field but as I wear old
hats anyway and this one seems to fit. I cannot say it has saved some shots
and others where the flash has been in the field of view are distinctly
worse, but overall I think it has lightened the atmosphere. No-one likes a
gloomy wedding, unless it is a Goth wedding. Then gloom is charged for as an
extra.

 

                I envy the Nikon digital workers who seem to be able to set
up battery -powered SB 800's that slave off their cameras with no complex
wiring and little extra weight. Whether an SB 800 would stand up to 100+
continuous flashes in rapid succession is another thing, but the system
seems like a convenient portable studio.

 

                My real reason for this posting, in addition to getting the
list jump-started yet again, is to ask if anyone has a really viable
suggestion for a flash diffuser or modifier that will improve the on-camera
results that I get from my standard old Metz CT-1 or CL-1 flashes. I mount
them up on a handgrip plus bracket that puts the tube above the centreline
of the lens but I cannot for the life of me think of an effective add-on
softbox that would be usable without occluding the thyristor sensor. Any
ideas?

 

Uncle Dick

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