[HUG ] Re: Tote Dat Barge

Dear Uncle,

I am unfamiliar with the Metz family. Perhaps is because of that one dinner 
with the Metz's my great great great grandfather attended in which swords were 
brandished and, it is rumored, a few heads rolled. But that's another story.

For remote flash firing ala Nikon, I've used little gizmo's called peanuts that 
provide excellent results. Any flash that can be manually adjusted and set upon 
a small stand can light up the back of a room quite well. I have also used a 
Soften omni-bounce as well as  Lumiquest softbox II, Ultra Soft and Pocket 
Bouncer. All work well under the right conditions.

That said, I'm no wedding photographer, perhaps because of one wedding that my 
great great great grandmother attended...
boB

 
Bob Adler
Palo Alto, CA
http://www.raflexions.com



----- Original Message ----
From: Stein <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 6:12:29 AM
Subject: [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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