Night Jump Photos

[sinjin 0]

Here are a few night jump shots i took.

http://pablo.smugmug.com/gallery/6023742_DuJ7m#376942691_cFoou

The settings were full manual, 200, F5.6, iso 100 on rebel xt with a 15mm sigma... the flash a 580 II with m 1/1..

and yes the subject freely chose to take the flash blast and several warnings he may not see at all afterwards...

thanks tony h. as i continue to use info from your class

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[BMFin 0]

Nice!

Few things popped my mind..

How cool would it be to have a bounce box on the master flash + some other guy flying a slave flash from let say 90 degree angle from the side.. (maby a bit below)

This way the light would be much softer and wouldnt be so "hard" as it is here. Might create a really cool effect..

Also maby white jump suit might work better than black..

Anyways really Cool and unique photos . Something I have to try sometimes also..

I guess you were shooting manual focus right ?

[Mustang69 0]

The pictures are cool, but how did it affect the subject's night vision?

[sinjin 0]

great point, right when we got down i said we should have put you in the banana yellow tandem jump suit. side 90 flash with a slave would be great and alot better on the subjects night vision too... dammit i need more toys, where are the sponsors.. more $$$$ please.. i did use manual focus. also i did not do any post editing other than a crop and i shot jpeg where i should have shot raw....

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[PhreeZone 20]

Use a Pocketwizard for the slave flash since you are not shooting TTL

I've wanted to do remote radio strobes on sunset jumps even. The cheaper Catus triggers might work but I wouldn't trust them since I've had spotty fires on them over 100 feet.

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